Seeking a Home - stallion: any thoughts on him?

Mac · Postby **Mac** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:37 am

I am boarding some mares at a farm where a stallion named Seeking A Home is standing. He's only had 20 foals of racing age, one nice stakes winner and one stakes-placed, bred to very modest mares. Currently has the highest a.e.i. in Texas off those runners (1.56? I think). Full sister to Pleasant Home, good dam line. SUPPOSEDLY, Shug McGauhey trained him and said he was WAY faster and more talented than his sister Pleasant Home, but I heard this third hand...not sure. Anyway, he was injured as a 2-year-old in training.

I am not sure I have any mares that fit his pedigree so I am only asking out of curiosity, wondering if he has the makings of a good breed-to-race sire.

Crystal · Postby **Crystal** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:10 pm

I really like his pedigree. 2nd is a mare named Maplejinksy who produced millionaire sky Beauty. 3rd dam champion sprinter. Too bad this guy didn't get a chance to run.

zinn21 · Postby **zinn21** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:49 pm

Mac, he could be a sleeper. Certainly bred very well.

Mac · Postby **Mac** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:43 pm

thank you, Zinn and Crystal. I appreciate your comments, and was thinking much the same.

Indychase · Postby **Indychase** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:26 pm

How does he look? That family ain't the soundest. I'd be wary of him for that reason.

springboro · Postby **springboro** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:28 pm

on the plus side; two full sisters who did race and were talented stakes winners.

on the negative; family of Dayjur, a great runner who just didn't seem to get the expected runners.

and... I think I recall another rather famous unraced stud from this family... but I can't prove that right now. I had though Prime something, but The Prime Minister was a stakes winner.

Mac · Postby **Mac** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:59 am

Indychase and Springboro,

Thanks for your comments. I'd say the stallion is a good-looking, muscled type, a lot of size to him. There is a picture of him in the Texas stallion register. I hadn't realized there might be soundness issues in this dam family and thanks for the alert.

I would agree that Dayjur is not a strong sire. As to another unraced stallion out of that dam line, one would be Gold Legend. Now he is actually a pretty decent sire for being in Texas and not having the purses or top mares. He's had his share of graded stakes winners, including Heritage of Gold (gr 1, one or two million in earnings).

casallc · Postby **casallc** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:28 pm

He is a good looking horse. That front leg looks scary in the picture. $5000 is no bargain for what he is.

Indychase · Postby **Indychase** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:29 pm

Do you think that is bad Photoshopping? One leg looks like it has way less bone than the other. They seem really out of balance.

casallc · Postby **casallc** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:36 pm

Don't know but it would make me look close in person.

geowarrior · Postby **geowarrior** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:51 pm

I'm absolutely the worst with conformation, but even I can see that one front leg seems much skinnier than the other. I'd be a bit worried too, but photos can be so misleading, and don't many posters on this board absolutely insist on seeing the stallion in person before breeding to it?

TomFool · Postby **TomFool** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:22 pm

Its not the best angle to look at but the difference in size is probley due to an old injury & or the angle of the photo. He is not a bad looking horse at all & his pedigree is very solid & he already has that good turf sprinter that Morris Nicks has. I would look at this horse for 1k or 1,500 with the right mare but for 5k & in Texas they are dreaming.