horsenuts wrote:sunday_silence wrote:horsenuts wrote:
None of Young's heirs have shown any interest in horseracing.
Hello? Chris Young?
That's news to me because several years ago WT said no one seemed interested in carrying on Overbrook. And watching Overbrook dwindle down over the past 5 years or so I figured it was a farm on its way out and fixing to be sold off once the sun set on WT for the last time. It just seemed that the commitment was no longer there to keep a top farm going. I attributed this to Mr Young's age and what he had said about "lack of interest".
Chris Young is the family's "Racing Manager" (although he himself was quoted as saying he isn't sure what that means). He's at the sales shopping. If they have a horse in, he's usually at the track. From talking to some people who worked at the farm when he was a teen, it sounds like he was in the trenches learning and working with them, and not being the ass he could've been in his position.
The main problem Overbrook has is lack of stallion power beyond Storm Cat. It's fine 'til he dies or is pensioned, of course. This is why they've actually pursued standing some of the bigger names in recent years, whereas they never before had any interest in standing anything but their own. Rock Hard Ten is one they tried to get. They've lost out, though, because they won't pay enough.
They don't have much time left to find something to help fill the void that will be left by Storm Cat. Jump Start may be a nice stallion, but he hasn't started off gangbusters. I haven't noticed any promising colts in their stable at the moment. Something needs to give.
The farm is right in the path of development on that side of Lexington. Part of their spread is likely to be sold for that purpose. Mr. Young had the foresight to buy that other hunk of land across the road from part of the property they already had. So, if they need to sell part of the original farm to be developed, there's still plenty of land for the farm.
