Ok, anybody who thinks for a minute that just because my face is going up on billboards as part of the new racing offer: Suckers Most Wanted-free ride to the track, any day any time. Don\'t think for a second that I would so dumb to bet that horse. These are excerpts from my pre-Derby analysis.
.....the horse who is going to receive the perfect stalking trip....He has real good number power, a suitable style and is training very well. The only clue I will give is his jockeys name has six letters in it.
Surely you knew that stood for SANTOS not PAT DAY. That name only has three letters in it.
So just because I\'m the poster boy for the Suckers Most Wanted campaign, it looks like me but it\'s not me. I swear.
Congrats to Winstar, NY Breeding program, Tagg and most of all TG.
If he wins the Preakness you will have all three legs of the Triple Crown.
Farina
Santos
Flores
Bailey
Pat Day
Nice try, but NO SOUP FOR YOU! HP
Silver Charm--
Thanks. Our involvement was with the purchase of 50% of Distorted Humor as a racehorse for Prestonwood, just before the market really took off-- a horse by Forty Niner out of a Danzig mare who won his first start at GP would probably cost 4 times as much now.
Much more importantly, credit should go to Rich Decker. Rich was the farm manager at Prestonwood, and was the key player in my getting involved. In general, the Kentucky boys don\'t like outsiders, and farm managers don\'t like me getting involved with their clients, but Rich saw that I was an asset that could help turn around PWF, and Rich, Elliot Walden, Michael Dickinson and myself did just that. Of the 23 horses I bought the Preston brothers, 13 won stakes-- Victory Gallop, Da Hoss, Distorted Humor, Birr, Bet Me Best, Connecting Terms, etc. Ultimately, the farm and all the horses were sold to Win Star, for a lot of money.
But before that, Distorted Humor went to stud. Rich was the guy who decided which mares he was bred to for the first 2 years-- and last year DH was leading first crop stallion. And Rich was the guy who picked Belle\'s Good Cide out of a sale for PWF, and decided to breed her to DH.
Interesting how all these things get started isn\'t it. I met Rich Decker once, in 1998 the Victory Gallop year, he seemed like a good honest hard working guy. There are so many people like him who are laboring away under the radar screen that a win like this is what he has spent his entire working career trying to achieve.
Congrats Rich !!
I remember Distorted Humor running at Keeneland as a young 3YO coming from GP in a 1X I believe. The reason is his sire Forty Niner is almost my surname instead of Silver Charm. Thats how much I loved the horse.
It seems to me that his owner was Reinacher the same guy who owned War Emblem until he sold him right before the Derby. I hope he still owns the other 50%. This poor guy has sold a Derby winner three weeks before the race and sold a very well bred animal who later went on to sire the Derby Winner the VERY NEXT YEAR !!
The guy could have said forget the steel business with its 0% profit margins I\'ve just hit racings version of the Lottery.
One final note, some people have told me that FuPeg is an absolute beast in the stallion barn. He is said to be letting loose with rips and snorts and as he is being led away has a prance that says \"I know I\'m bad\". Meanwhile the poor mare has to struggle just to remain on her feet once he\'s done. Should be interesting to see how the crops turn out.
I still can\'t believe this horse won the Derby. I think he caught a fast pace and somehow had enough stamina to clunk up on a track they had superhighwayed is my recollection. He never looked impressive in distance races again.
He\'s a Prospector over a Danzig mare. (Angel Fever - Full to Pine Bluff) I don\'t read that as especially encouraging. He can rip and snort all he wants and dance when he\'s done, but I understand pimps do the same thing and that they rarely sire anything of class. He was also brittle. Thats just what the breed needs, more brittle Prospector in the bloodlines.
lol
Tabi
Tabitha wrote regarding FuPeg,
\"He\'s a Prospector over a Danzig mare. (Angel Fever - Full to Pine Bluff) I don\'t read that as especially encouraging.\"
Didn\'t you just score pretty good on Derby Day with a stallion who has very similar bloodlines??
Distorted Humor
Forty Niner-Danzig\'s Beauty !!
PS-Honey you want to share your magic with me sometime?
Briefly the answers to your questions are NO...and NO.
But for a guy that almost took \"Forty Niner\" for a moniker I\'d think you could answer the first question yourself, but I\'ll try and help you with it. My Derby winner was not sired by a son of Mr. Prospector over a Danzig mare, he was sired by a grandson of Mr. Prospector over a Danzig mare. Here Look:
Distorted Humor:
http://www.dmtc.com/p/5539.php
And your mortal lock
FuPig: http://www.dmtc.com/p/5301.php
In essence it makes my Derby winner 1/8th Prospector.
FuPig\'s get are gonna be 1/4 Prospector. I think the further you get away from Prospector the better chance you have to breed a classic horse. But in my opinion with that immediate Danzig blood, FuPig is gonna pass along a lot of speed and a lot of infirmity.
But the key is the immediate blood mated to Prospector in File, unless you think thats unimportant. And even at that Forty Niner was life and death at 10 marks, but he had gameness. Does FuPig?
Post Edited (05-06-03 15:36)
Silver Charm wrote:
\"Didn\'t you just score pretty good on Derby Day with a stallion who has very similar bloodlines??\"
Tabitha wrote:
\"Briefly the answers to your questions are NO...and NO.\"
You still haven\'t answered my third question. But before we get to know each other I have to tell you one thing.
I bet out on FuPeg that year in the Derby and the gift Exacta with Aptitude.