A Wild Rush out of a Meadowlake mare just sold for 1.6 million at the Calder Select Two Year Old in Training Sale:
http://drf.com/news/article/53125.html
Will he win the Derby? Will he win a Stakes? Will He be a winner? Will he ever start?
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?query_type=horse&search_bar=horse&h=WILD%20RUSH3&g=5&inbred=Standard&x2=n&pedloggedin=0
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?query_type=horse&search_bar=horse&h=FREUDENAU3&g=5&inbred=Standard&x2=n&pedloggedin=0
I use to attend this Select OBS Sale at Calder. I have an amusing memory of Sonny Hine slapping his palms and doing a little jig/twirl when he was a $60,000 underbidder on a Runaway Groom colt. Sure he was animated, he was betting his own money. The colt was Cherokee Run.
But back to Wild Rush. He won almost as much as his son cost. Silver Charm may remember the dead heat with his namesake in the 98 Kentucky Cup:
http://www.horsesales.com/patlang/silvercharmwildrush1.html
I don\'t really remember Wild Rush. Eight wins in sixteen starts is not too shabby. He was at Adena Springs. Now he\'s gone to where all good stallions go...
Japan
CtC
p.s. He won the Met and Carter
Post Edited (02-04-04 16:03)
the story says this $1.6M Wild Rush cold broke the record set by Tabor last year with Chapel Royal. no guarantee CR will ever make $1.2M, but at this point, I think that looks like a pretty good buy.
CtC wrote:
\"Silver Charm may remember the dead heat with his namesake in the 98 Kentucky Cup\"
You bet I do, I was standing ground level that day at Turfway, on the finish line. That was some horse race, they hooked up on the backstretch and seemed as though they were bobbing heads for the next half-mile.
When they hit the wire it was literally the proverbial \"too close to call\".
Silver Charm later went on to run second that year in the BC Classic to Awesome Again.
That was another wild finish.