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I don’t understand the hate on Andrew either. I bet he is pretty damn close to 3 million in babies
FULL brothers or sisters to top racehorses RARELY works out and in fact, a LOT of the time the horses turn out be bad to boot.
Yes every trainer would love to have his owners and there money but I can assure you not one top baby trainer would ever do what he did by going to the sale and buying full brothers and full sisters. It's very obvious he did zero homework and just bid on pedigree. Many of the horses I heard he got run up by the sale company ala Cancelliere in the day. Back in the day when they seen Cancelliere bidding the ran those horses up 200-300K beyond the under bidder. Forget about the financial loss this is going to be. This will get them nothing of what they want. Supposedly they just want to compete in the big races. Doing the full brother / sister thing has been tried before and it has failed every time. If you didn't go to the wedding don't try showing up for the reception.
Well..not EVERY time:Rich and Elegant -Western HanoverBJ's Pleasure - Super BowlClassic Wish - Cam's Card SharkAmour Angus - Garland LobellPlenty times it doesn't work, but never say never, as they say.
5 out of the last 40 yrs at what 10k babies a year? 5 out of 400k horses. Now those are pretty good odds I must say
So you buy on the cheap and pray for the best if you go this route??
For the average buyer, paying $1.1M for a brother to Greenshoe, for example, isn't a realistic goal. And IMO it's asinine, but that's got to be more about bragging rights, because how in the hell are you going to make that back. But yes, I'd be more than happy to buy a full sibling to a great one at a reasonable price and hope for a percentage of that gene cocktail to work out for a decent horse.