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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Parked on October 13, 2023, 05:22:54 PM
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I watch lots of videos. Over and over. Then I look at them in the flesh. Then I give the #s I like to my trainer. We both have to like them. I usually buy just 2 maybe 3. I have learned to cross off all Winbak yearlings. Why ?? They wait until very close to the start of the sale tp put them up. By then I have enough sorted out to get what I want. By doing that it makes my selections much easier.
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I watch lots of videos. Over and over. Then I look at them in the flesh. Then I give the #s I like to my trainer. We both have to like them. I usually buy just 2 maybe 3. I have learned to cross off all Winbak yearlings. Why ?? They wait until very close to the start of the sale tp put them up. By then I have enough sorted out to get what I want. By doing that it makes my selections much easier.
I looked at a Winbak Fear The Dragon filly at the Lex sale. Liked the page, liked the video. They bring her out and the first thing I see is this huge bruise on her head between her eyes. I mean huge with six fresh stitches in it to keep the gash together. I go -- " How the hell did that happen, in the truck on the way here?" All I get is a bunch of shrugs -- then one guy twenty feet away walks over and says -- It happened in the stall. No way I believe that -- I've never had one smash their head up like that in a stall. Kicker is she sold for $23,000.