Record price for a horse!

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:52 am

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/200603 ... F5400.html

LilacDragon · Post by **LilacDragon** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:56 am

Isn't that CRAZY!!!!!!!

Wish the darn horse had a name so I could see how it does during the Triple Crown, if it even shows up there.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:01 am

I'll keep an eye out but he wouldn't be there until next year... I'm sure

the media will be all over it, though!!

:-6

LilacDragon · Post by **LilacDragon** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:03 am

I hope so! For that kind of green he had better be DAMN fast!

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:39 am

Horse breeding is a very lucrative business. I've watched some shows on it. There's a place in Dallas, that removes the embryo from the female horse after it is so old. The embryo is then placed in another female to carry to term. It was amazing to watch.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:42 am

Can't do anything like that with Thouroughbreds, though, if you want to

race. Has to be an actual breeding, no artificial insemination and the mare

has to carry her own foal...

Them's the rules!!

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:06 pm

Wow didn't know that. I love horses and would someday to have one. Still working on hubby to let me have one.

LilacDragon · Post by **LilacDragon** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:58 pm

valerie wrote: Can't do anything like that with Thouroughbreds, though, if you want to

race. Has to be an actual breeding, no artificial insemination and the mare

has to carry her own foal...

Them's the rules!!

No AI? I didn't know that!

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:31 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: Money to burn...:rolleyes:

But it's all a crap shoot, anyway take a look at this:

Many Derby winners sold for relatively modest sums before winning the big race. Of the last ten winners, four were sold as yearlings for less than $25,000, which was less than the average price of a yearling in the years they were sold. (The average yearling sale price has ranged from about $43,000 to $54,000 over the last five years, according to The Jockey Club Information Systems; median prices are much lower.) Silver Charm, the 1997 winner, was the best bargain of all, selling for just $16,500, and 1997 winner Real Quiet sold for $17,000. Compare that to 2000 winner Fusaichi Pegasus, who sold for $4 million.

If I win the lottery, I'm gettin' into the biz... I already have an idea what

bloodlines I want to look at... but that can only help you some it's still

no guarantee.

"Breed the best to the best and hope for the best"

:-6