Pedigree Query

Well, waiting on contracts, but did firm up the dance card for next year:

Gallant Effort (in foal to Marino Marini) - Strong Hope
Blue Broad (Gold Case) - Oratory
Maiden of Honor (Marino Marini) - Cuvee
Capable Miss (Southern Image) - Sharp Humor
Simply Saucy (Canadian Frontier) - Sharp Humor

The last is my newest addition, picked out of the Keeneland November sale. Stakes producer out of a full sister to the dam of Tabasco Cat (which didn't show on the catalogue page, so I got her for only $9,000)

And for those interested, Press Camp runs Dec 26, 1st race at Golden Gate. Her turf experiment went...errr...not so good, as she broke slow, fought the surface the whole way and never got in the bridle. Back to the dirt.

Nice to have it all done huh ? As one of our mares is a daughter of Tabasco Cat your selection for simply saucy intrigues me. I'd be interested in hearing how that works out for you. Good luck !

yeah I know how nice it is to be done early...though not as deep in the fees as you are there...but I have all 4 booked
Sails Are Up breeding to-Ten Most Wanted
Your Turn To Deal breeding to-Freud (her 06 Freud is in my avatar pic)
Chantre'breeding to -Read The Foot Notes
Mostly Devious breeding to- Read The Footnotes

Yeah ; I did go a bit deep in the fee dep't. ! I'll probably stay in that category until my mare's tell me I'ma moron.

It makes sense to me to breed each useful mare with an eye to success in racing and/or sales. The corollary is: keep the mare band "lean and mean", by selling off the less likely producers. Often that also means paying more for the stud, but not always.

By starting early in September 2005, we went to Arch with Spanish Guitar when we could get in at $7500, just before he went up to $10K and then $15K. Now he is $25K and proving he's worth it. Unfortunately that was the foal Spanish aborted at ten months.

In 2006 we're hoping the two-for-one special on Vicar was a good choice for Shake On It and Hop to It, since I was intrigued with his pedigree matchup for both, even before his services went on sale. Of course now he's in Korea, so hopefully he'll prove his sale was premature.

For 2007 I'm hoping Eddington at $20K is good value, and I'm almost sure Bowman's Band is a bargain at $6K. Plus the discounted season to Sky Classic should be a good choice for Vivid Dreams.

This year I decided it was worth the extra money to go the "proven stallion" route. I have young mares, and breeding to new stallions is a total crap shoot if you are trying to prove your mares. Its fine if your breeding for the sales ring, but Im trying to go a little deeper than that...to make a good produce record on decent mares, and have something with a fairly decent shot of being a race horse. In spite of all the brand new unproven stallions in FL this year, I went with Trippi and Halos Image, proven for about the same money as unproven shoot-in-the-dark. I have one more maiden mare to book...possibly Gibson County. I don't think Ill ever breed to a first year horse ever again. I want to at least see what the first crop looks like.

Yup!

We're set too. Substitute Witness is booked to Pioneering. Breeding to race.

Good luck, everyone!