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Biggest/Best TB values in history

Postby WARHORSE28 » Fri May 23, 2008 8:59 am

While we’re all waiting for the Belmont to start, I thought we needed another game to play… I said in a previous post that I’ve always liked rooting for an underdog. (I was the idiot rooting for Sham in 1973…) One of my other loves of the sport is finding stories about horses that were bought for a song and then went on to become major stakes winners. (I like to amuse my non-TB fan friends with this kind of stuff.) Anyone can buy a winner if your pockets are as deep as the Maktoums; but you get a special place in history in my book if you’re broke and just plain lucky…

So in no particular order (and forgive me if I get some of this wrong, since I’m going off the top of my head), here are my candidates. Please feel free to correct or add:

John Henry (purchased by Sam Rubin for $25,000.00)
Holy Bull (inherited for free by Jimmy Croll)
Skipaway (purchased for $22,500.00 by Sonny Hine for wife Carolyn)
Stymie (claimed for $1,500.00 by Hirsh Jacobs)
Miesque’s Approval (claimed for $50,000.00 by Marty Wolfson)
Alsab (purchased for $700.00)
Red Rum (purchased by Ginger McCain for a very small sum, only horse to ever win the Grand National three times)
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Postby UmmYeah » Fri May 23, 2008 9:05 am

Princequillo is worth noting. And for a more recent and non-American example, there's Takeover Target.
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Postby Toccet02 » Fri May 23, 2008 9:30 am

Didn't Xtra Heat cost about $5,000?
And Real Quiet was $17K, I believe.
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Postby TBG » Fri May 23, 2008 9:30 am

Seattle Slew ($17,500)
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Postby gmj828 » Fri May 23, 2008 9:36 am

17,500 for the Slew. That is just unreal.
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Postby bdw0617 » Fri May 23, 2008 9:40 am

as previously stated, seattle slew was bought for 17,500.

I read somewhere that there was a major stallions dam.. like bold ruler or raise a native, whose dam was bought for 1200 bucks. that's some value. could it have been gold digger?

I just don't think any better value is better than seattle slew. not only did he rack in at the track, they made upwards of 500k a pop at the hight of his stud career.
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Postby WARHORSE28 » Fri May 23, 2008 9:41 am

Supposedly F. Tesio purchased the dam of Nearco in England for a couple hundred bucks.
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Postby larrygene » Fri May 23, 2008 9:42 am

Maybe not the best but Lava Man was claimed for $50K. Not bad!!!!
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Postby ct2346 » Fri May 23, 2008 9:55 am

If I remember correctly, Canonero II was purchased at Keeneland for only $1200.
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Postby spex4me » Fri May 23, 2008 10:12 am

Spectacular Bid, as a yearling, he was sold for US$37,000 . Or at least I think that is what I was told.
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Postby majxmom » Fri May 23, 2008 10:47 am

Toccet02 wrote:And Real Quiet was $17K, I believe.

When Bob Baffert told Mike Pegram how much he'd paid for RQ, Pegram asked, "Does he have cancer?" :)
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Postby mary » Fri May 23, 2008 11:02 am

Jazema - Magic Weisner(?)'s dam, was initially purchased for $1 by Nancy Alberts

I believe Moscow Burning was claimed for $12500.00 before her turf career
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Postby madelyn » Fri May 23, 2008 11:14 am

Lawyer Ron's dam RNA'd at the minimum ($1K) as a broodmare prospect before being taken back home and bred ...
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Postby bdw0617 » Fri May 23, 2008 11:21 am

if I am not mistaken, she was recently sold in foal to distorted humor for over 600k. from rags to riches ;)

it was her or funny cide's dam. I forget which one.
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Re: Biggest/Best TB values in history

Postby Hold Your Peace » Fri May 23, 2008 11:53 am

WARHORSE28 wrote:While we’re all waiting for the Belmont to start, I thought we needed another game to play… I said in a previous post that I’ve always liked rooting for an underdog. (I was the idiot rooting for Sham in 1973…) One of my other loves of the sport is finding stories about horses that were bought for a song and then went on to become major stakes winners. (I like to amuse my non-TB fan friends with this kind of stuff.) Anyone can buy a winner if your pockets are as deep as the Maktoums; but you get a special place in history in my book if you’re broke and just plain lucky…

So in no particular order (and forgive me if I get some of this wrong, since I’m going off the top of my head), here are my candidates. Please feel free to correct or add:

John Henry (purchased by Sam Rubin for $25,000.00)
Holy Bull (inherited for free by Jimmy Croll)
Skipaway (purchased for $22,500.00 by Sonny Hine for wife Carolyn)
Stymie (claimed for $1,500.00 by Hirsh Jacobs)
Miesque’s Approval (claimed for $50,000.00 by Marty Wolfson)
Alsab (purchased for $700.00)
Red Rum (purchased by Ginger McCain for a very small sum, only horse to ever win the Grand National three times)


Miesque's Approval was never claimed. He ran for $50,000 while trained by Bill Mott for Live Oak but wasn't claimed. When he was transferred to Marty Wolfson he was still owned by Live Oak.
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