Liveblogging The Sale
6:00 p.m.On the way to Opelousas, La. Hope spelled correctly. Currently on side of road waiting for trooper to give me ticket for 85mph. Guilty as charged. Was beginning to worry whether there are any troopers. here he comes
10:00 p.m. Rudy, Arkansas. Just snaked the way (literally) through NW Arkansas, and historic Bentonville, home of the first Walmart. Highway becomes decent S of Fayetteville. Almost to Ft. Smith. Same rt. that we traveled once upon a time on every weekend on way to La Downs or Blueribbon. Had to stop as the Avis car rental Kia is belching all sorts of noise at speed. Seems to be ok. Stocked up at Shell station since about to leave civilization. 300 mi down. 440 to go. Sale starts at 10 a.m. Nice 1st horse.
7:00 a.m. 9/5 Somewhere quite a bit S. of Shreveport. Trip takes a little starch out of the traveler. Forgot the utter nightmare of driving through Arkansas. They can shout God Bless America at Dem. Convention. Seeing little God blessed down this way.
9:30 a.m. Arrival. Last 60 miles in to Opelousas Interstate at 75 mph with beautiful La vegetation. Take back last paragraph. One little nice spot. Evangeline Parish, La. Gold Mercedes E320 parked just in front of me. The competition. Forgot to bring the phone cable. So much for live blogging. I'm interested in the 4 Richter Scale Colts and every horse out of a dam with more than 5 wins. $9000.00 on board. Thought--what hell will i do with horse once I buy him. That is just a 760 mile brutal trip. May bid only if able to make arrangements for horse in advance. First Colt in a nice grandson of Storm Cat out of a 200,000 win siphon mare. Should be interesting.
9:20 p.m. 9/5 Live blogging went by the wayside on a 1:01 degree day with 200% humidity and a speaker system at the auction so loud u were unable to hear urself think. Lot's of interesting thoughts about auctions that blogger is too beat to deal with except to note they have an identifiable dynamic. Id thought these astute La horse people would have a plan. Bidding was as inexplicable as Lexington.
Out of an abundance of over enthusiasm or in another sense loosing my mind I wound up with two.
Long discussion for later. They're both big and athletic and comparatively in the sale looked in the top 20. One is out of a champion filly in Uruguay and, before snickering, she's by Robin Des Pins, on of the better sires down there. The top is Indian Charlie and Afleet. The Colt has as nice a head structure for racing as we'll see and is irrepressible in terms of his energy level. The other is a tall leggy highly athletic colt with several of my favourite horses--On top Storm Cat and Spend A Buck through daughter Antespend, and on bottom a favorite of mine in conformation--The Prime Minister and the Pleasant Colony horse Cherokee Colony. U'd have to be around a while to know significance of those. The colt has a great breeding combo and is a looker. The dam won 50000 and was stakes placed. So, i followed one of my rules and bought horses out of racing dams, in this case, black type no less.
10:00 p.m. Rudy, Arkansas. Just snaked the way (literally) through NW Arkansas, and historic Bentonville, home of the first Walmart. Highway becomes decent S of Fayetteville. Almost to Ft. Smith. Same rt. that we traveled once upon a time on every weekend on way to La Downs or Blueribbon. Had to stop as the Avis car rental Kia is belching all sorts of noise at speed. Seems to be ok. Stocked up at Shell station since about to leave civilization. 300 mi down. 440 to go. Sale starts at 10 a.m. Nice 1st horse.
7:00 a.m. 9/5 Somewhere quite a bit S. of Shreveport. Trip takes a little starch out of the traveler. Forgot the utter nightmare of driving through Arkansas. They can shout God Bless America at Dem. Convention. Seeing little God blessed down this way.
9:30 a.m. Arrival. Last 60 miles in to Opelousas Interstate at 75 mph with beautiful La vegetation. Take back last paragraph. One little nice spot. Evangeline Parish, La. Gold Mercedes E320 parked just in front of me. The competition. Forgot to bring the phone cable. So much for live blogging. I'm interested in the 4 Richter Scale Colts and every horse out of a dam with more than 5 wins. $9000.00 on board. Thought--what hell will i do with horse once I buy him. That is just a 760 mile brutal trip. May bid only if able to make arrangements for horse in advance. First Colt in a nice grandson of Storm Cat out of a 200,000 win siphon mare. Should be interesting.
9:20 p.m. 9/5 Live blogging went by the wayside on a 1:01 degree day with 200% humidity and a speaker system at the auction so loud u were unable to hear urself think. Lot's of interesting thoughts about auctions that blogger is too beat to deal with except to note they have an identifiable dynamic. Id thought these astute La horse people would have a plan. Bidding was as inexplicable as Lexington.
Out of an abundance of over enthusiasm or in another sense loosing my mind I wound up with two.
Long discussion for later. They're both big and athletic and comparatively in the sale looked in the top 20. One is out of a champion filly in Uruguay and, before snickering, she's by Robin Des Pins, on of the better sires down there. The top is Indian Charlie and Afleet. The Colt has as nice a head structure for racing as we'll see and is irrepressible in terms of his energy level. The other is a tall leggy highly athletic colt with several of my favourite horses--On top Storm Cat and Spend A Buck through daughter Antespend, and on bottom a favorite of mine in conformation--The Prime Minister and the Pleasant Colony horse Cherokee Colony. U'd have to be around a while to know significance of those. The colt has a great breeding combo and is a looker. The dam won 50000 and was stakes placed. So, i followed one of my rules and bought horses out of racing dams, in this case, black type no less.
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Congrats RR, good luck and drive safe!
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