The 1st race at Beulah today

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

Does it really enhance her value? Hard to say. But I had a conversation with a farm manager this past fall who described to me a situation with a well-bred NY-bred filly for a big breeder here in New York. The filly couldn't break her maiden on the NYRA circuit and was shipped to Finger Lakes specifically to break her maiden and make her a "winner," both to help the filly herself and the mare she came from. She won the race and was promptly retired.

I've often said that catalog pages lie. "Winner at 3, $30,000" can mean dramatically different things if you look at the PPs of two different mares. It's for the buyer to do the necessary homework and uncover those differences.

The fact that they were too disheartened to even try running once in a Turfway MSW over a surface logically far more to her liking is pretty telling on what they think of her current ability.

I would have bet anything they scratched. Even if they thought she'd be worth a slight bit more as a "winner" - that was one of the sillier moves I've ever seen in racing.

She's got to have pretty good residual value.

How many young mares are there out there who are by Storm Cat out of a Mr. P mare - and are a half sibling to an undefeated multiple Group 1 winner?

I'm going to take a wild guess and say ... probably only her.

Insane that someone would pay all that money to ship her over from Europe .. keep her in training .. and when she trains like a dog, they risk their entire investment over a sloppy track at Beulah in the middle of winter.