[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by kathy and al

I'm trying to figure out these poll results. Yesterday (Sat. 5/5 prior to post time of the Derby) there were no votes for I'll Have Another in the poll. This morning there are 8 votes for the winner!!!! Pretty easy to pick the winner in this poll after the race is run. Also, the poll says that it is open until May 9th????????????? Is there something I don't understand here??

Hindsight is 20/20. I should have made the poll close yesterday but that still would have allowed people to vote after the race.

[kathy and al]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Hindsight is 20/20. I should have made the poll close yesterday but that still would have allowed people to vote after the race.

The poll could have closed at midnight on Fri. 5/4 in which case----no one would have picked the winner!!!!!! Just saying

[jimbo2012]

Originally Posted by kathy and al

I'll Have Another was sold as a yearling for $11,000 and then pin hooked in the April 2011 Ocala Breeders Sales for $35,000.

They didn't think that much of him at that price, goes to show you that experts are wrong at times too.

Not sure about the profit part it costs about $1500-2000 a month to train which is usually started in Sept of their yearling age.

About half as much before training, then the auction fees, they didn't make much on that deal.

In NY with with the purses going upwards of $75,000 for MSW & alw or overnight stakes I don't think you'll see any decent NY Bred go less than 60-75K

[kathy and al]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

They didn't think that much of him at that price, goes to show you that experts are wrong at times too.

Not sure about the profit part it costs about $1500-2000 a month to train which is usually started in Sept of their yearling age.

About half as much before training, then the auction fees, they didn't make much on that deal.

In NY with with the purses going upwards of $75,000 for MSW & alw or overnight stakes I don't think you'll see any decent NY Bred go less than 60-75K

I have seen many NY breds sell for a lot less than 60-75K at auction. The entire game is based on speculation and I'm sure you know that many top notch trainers have had some bad horses in their time and conversely some very small time trainers have had some very good horses. I'll take luck in this game way over knowledge.