550k for a 25% share of With a City

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550k for a 25% share of With a City

Postby HR LLC » Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:34 am

From 40k claimer to 550k for a 25% share. Equirace bought this horse privatley for 150k back in January. Is 1.1 million for 50% of this horse a bargain or is it overpriced?


http://equirace.com/section2details.asp?id=41

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Postby madelyn » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:15 am

Umm. Considering 90% of War Emblem was sold for $950K(?) after he had already won the Illinois Derby and was pointed to the KY Derby (which carried a $1 million bonus if he won both, and he'd completed half of the task) I think $1.1mil for half of With a City is an awful lot. There is no bonus I know of for winning the Lane's End at Turfway and the KY Derby :D ... on the other hand the KY Derby purse is $2mil this year instead of $1mil. But the winner's share is only $1.2 mil less trainer and jockey, so $1.1mil for HALF the horse doesn't look like much of an investment.
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Re: 550k for a 25% share of With a City

Postby FOS » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:09 pm

hi HR LLC

HR LLC wrote:From 40k claimer to 550k for a 25% share. Equirace bought this horse privatley for 150k back in January. Is 1.1 million for 50% of this horse a bargain or is it overpriced?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Postby Heidilady » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:10 pm

Sounds like a good April Fools joke to me.
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Postby FOS » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:13 pm

hello Heidilady

Heidilady wrote:Sounds like a good April Fools joke to me.

:idea: :idea: :idea: hmmm.

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Postby HR LLC » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:37 pm

http://www.equirace.com/section2details.asp?id=41

I think they changed the pricing on him. I guess nobody bit at 550k for 25%ownership(1 share).

Now he is priced at 17 shares @ 50k per. That gets you 2.5% ownership per share. The numbers work out to 850k for 42%.

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Postby Sysonby » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:23 am

Strangely enough, if they stopped with the piecemeal stuff which ordinarily would inflate a horse's price, they probably could get $2 million or darn close. It's Derby Fever, he's guaranteed a berth, there's no overwhelming favorite and War Emblem showed everyone this can be done. Some half a billionaire can go out and try to buy history. But they won't want to share the podium with 20 others.

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Postby HR LLC » Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:33 pm

With a City ran dead last in the Ark Derby. I wonder if they still plan on going to the KY Derby with him.

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Postby Pete » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:19 pm

Hi All,

Wish me luck!

I just found the last two 1% owners packages to With A City in a bin at Wal-Mart (original sealed packages!) and bought them each for only $29.95. I did have to prepay a year's expenses of $1000 per package ($2,000 total) though.

KY Derby here we come!

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Postby austique » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:23 pm

Pete,

Are you sure you weren't at K-Mart? Wal-mart generally has more upscale products. :lol:
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Postby Heidilady » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:34 pm

austique wrote:Pete,

Are you sure you weren't at K-Mart? Wal-mart generally has more upscale products. :lol:


Actually I was gonna guess Goodwill.

LOL won't we all just die if he actually won? I think I'd be laughing so hard at the joke that I played on myself for putting him back on the shelf and not in my shopping cart. Same with a few others. Hey if any of you folks are betting on the race, couldn't hurt to put $2 on him to win or something instead of buying a 20 oz Coke and a candy bar with it just to be able to say you had him when no one else did. Hey obesity's a problem--put the Coke down and waste it on a "hopeless" Derby contender..you know just in case. Unless of course you're buying one of those really expensive mint juleps and you can't really spare it.
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