Noble Causeway

bdw0617 · Postby **bdw0617** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:19 pm

To stand at Crestwood farm, 5k

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:16 am

won 3 of 18 starts....
how utterly impressive :roll:

bdw0617 · Postby **bdw0617** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:27 am

hey... i'm not going to knock a horse that started 18 times this day in age

Foggytrip · Postby **Foggytrip** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:29 am

Are they paying you 5k to breed to him or charging 5k?

CS · Postby CS » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:37 am

I'm curious - would Magna Graduate be considered more attractive as a stallion than Noble Causeway? He is a nice racehorse, but has a more unfashionable pedigree....

Maven · Postby **Maven** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:41 am

I love Magna Graduate a THOUSAND times better as a stallion than Noble Causeway regardless of commercial appeal or race records.

Magna Graduate would be a great cross with a lot of the broodmare population and his female family is certainly classy, it not quite top tier.

Is Darby Dan making a play?

Rokeby Forever · Postby **Rokeby Forever** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:43 am

If you pay $5,000 for Noble Causeway, I hope you get $4,950 change.

Yeah, Darby Dan is making a play....Behren's stall was vacated.

bdw0617 · Postby **bdw0617** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:56 am

Rokeby Forever wrote:If you pay $5,000 for Noble Causeway, I hope you get $4,950 change.

Yeah, Darby Dan is making a play....Behren's stall was vacated.

I will say this for his defense...

A Giant's Causeway that doesn't like the turf and isn't good enough on the Dirt to be grade 1. Odd. his 2 turf races, one a maiden and one a grade 2, he finished off the board in both.

did you know that noble causeway could race in a NW3x right now?

adrienne · Postby **adrienne** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:07 pm

bdw0617 wrote:hey... i'm not going to knock a horse that started 18 times this day in age

Dude, you're spending too much time on this board and not enough actually watching races.

Yes, there is a decline in starts at the top levels... and that's the breeder's fault. Just because a stallion prospect didn't make 50 starts doesn't mean he couldn't... it means his connections wimped out.

You're not looking at more or less sound horses... you're looking at the business theory of the people who own them.

I was at The Woodlands the other day... their allowance fields hardly have a horse that haven't made 25+ starts. I saw Foolish Raja continue on, making his 102nd start.

The Woodlands is the not the bottom of the barrel, but they can see it from there. The horses at The Woodlands are NOT (NNOOTT) sounder than the horses at Keenland... their owner's just have a different business theory.

bdw0617 · Postby **bdw0617** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:13 pm

adrienne wrote:
bdw0617 wrote:hey... i'm not going to knock a horse that started 18 times this day in age

Dude, you're spending too much time on this board and not enough actually watching races.

Yes, there is a decline in starts at the top levels... and that's the breeder's fault. Just because a stallion prospect didn't make 50 starts doesn't mean he couldn't... it means his connections wimped out.

You're not looking at more or less sound horses... you're looking at the business theory of the people who own them.

I was at The Woodlands the other day... their allowance fields hardly have a horse that haven't made 25+ starts. I saw Foolish Raja continue on, making his 102nd start.

The Woodlands is the not the bottom of the barrel, but they can see it from there. The horses at The Woodlands are NOT (NNOOTT) sounder than the horses at Keenland... their owner's just have a different business theory.

it was a joke

adrienne · Postby **adrienne** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:15 pm

bdw0617 wrote:it was a joke

God, sorry to insult you.

Thought this was a thoroughbred discussion board.

Guess I was mistaken.

This place has gone to shit.

Foggytrip · Postby **Foggytrip** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:57 am

All due respect I saw enough of Noble Causeway after 10 races.

zinn21 · Postby **zinn21** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:22 am

He's Graded (i believe 1) stakes placed, he's a gorgeous and from an outstanding family. 5k might be pushing it but he bopped with the best and his genetics are excellent.