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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: PurpleSheetPicks on March 13, 2026, 01:02:59 PM
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See this nice looking guy in the upcoming sale.
Went for 70k at harrisburg. Can't pick up its legs anymore. Anyone know the story here?
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ouch
its not go boom its KABOOM!!
has not earned a dollar since purchase
look at the lines, came from a top barn
was ordinary 2 yr old
was less than that at 3 , other than first few starts he was all out to trot a mid 28 last 1/4
his last mile before the sale he lead the mile and finished last by 13 lengths, good horses dont do that
clearly was an underachiever with issues for Melander and its only got worse
hopefully there was 100 folks who owned 1% each
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See this nice looking guy in the upcoming sale.
Went for 70k at harrisburg. Can't pick up its legs anymore. Anyone know the story here?
Give him to Faurot if they want him to go!
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Leave it to Anthony to follow Marcus around.
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Give him to Faurot if they want him to go!
U mean Darren tannyhill?
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Horse also never wore hobbles with melander. Anthony put them on him after getting him. My thoughts are a good trot man could get this guy going. Likely going to get him at a good deal.
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31k
No steal there
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Greg Luther was the high bidder. I will be surprised to see him race well. Probably will not race again.
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i figured $20-$25k
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If greg lurther is involved, you know there will be a premium paid.
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The likely truth is, he'd have made a much better gelding, but presumably because of the success of his siblings (full or otherwise), he's still not.
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Anthony wouldnt ever geld him & try to get him going well
Make up something like: "he bit a groom so he's gotta go".
Instead of gelding him, knowing full well he wouldn't ever become a commercial stud because their babies are lucky to be decent for 1 year.
After that they're usually toast.
He goes for the easy early money so he can put something on their card before they start spitting the bit and being sore each day.
He knows come Aug/Sept- most of them will be tired, broken down, lame, sour, slow, injured, all of the above etc. always tries to get them ready early & gets them going too fast when it isn't needed. They get no proper foundation under them.
His brought back 3 yr olds are always horrible, he can't keep a horse good for long unless the horse is a beast and overcome the torture.
He was never much of a horseman, but what would him and his wife do for money otherwise, they were going to starve. Tried to leave to go be a politician but realized his mouth is more suited to swindle 1% at a time.
Wife was down as trainer previously and she's picking out horses at yearling sales with clients money.
She has no idea about breeding or confirmation but he doesn't either.
He was always going by "on his breeding page, his half brother or half sister was a world champion".
He blew a bunch of others money when he chased every half bro or sis that no one else wanted for big money.
He wants a great big horse then says "going to have to put him out to fill out, come back at 3, he's TOO big", just keep sending your payments so we can travel everywhere when we're not even needed.
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Anthony wouldnt ever geld him & try to get him going well
Make up something like: "he bit a groom so he's gotta go".
Instead of gelding him, knowing full well he wouldn't ever become a commercial stud because their babies are lucky to be decent for 1 year.
After that they're usually toast.
He goes for the easy early money so he can put something on their card before they start spitting the bit and being sore each day.
He knows come Aug/Sept- most of them will be tired, broken down, lame, sour, slow, injured, all of the above etc. always tries to get them ready early & gets them going too fast when it isn't needed. They get no proper foundation under them.
His brought back 3 yr olds are always horrible, he can't keep a horse good for long unless the horse is a beast and overcome the torture.
He was never much of a horseman, but what would him and his wife do for money otherwise, they were going to starve. Tried to leave to go be a politician but realized his mouth is more suited to swindle 1% at a time.
Wife was down as trainer previously and she's picking out horses at yearling sales with clients money.
She has no idea about breeding or confirmation but he doesn't either.
He was always going by "on his breeding page, his half brother or half sister was a world champion".
He blew a bunch of others money when he chased every half bro or sis that no one else wanted for big money.
He wants a great big horse then says "going to have to put him out to fill out, come back at 3, he's TOO big", just keep sending your payments so we can travel everywhere when we're not even needed.
I am not sure what this horse specifically has to do with your above gripes on AMac, other than he was a bad buy as a racehorse. He just got this horse late fall (at least I would assume so, as this horse sold in HBG as a racehorse to one of his owners). No one prior gelded him, presumably for the same reason (bloodlines and consequent perceived worth).
Regardless, he doesn't race like a horse with much try. At his age now, the damage might be done if that's indeed the reason for his lack of effort. I can't see Luther improving him, even if he does geld him, but I tend to doubt it. Probably at this point, most value is as Amish stud, or maybe one of the poorer state programs.
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Astute purchase for a reasonable price. The horse has entirely different equipment on than when he could trot a 26.3 first quarter. Also a half brother to In Range. Not totally unreasonable to think he could get out on him with a few small crops in Ohio or ky. They have all the facilities so another horse is a marginal change in variable costs.
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There are to many trotting studs in both Ohio & Kentucky with reasonable fees for anyone who has half a brain, to take a longshot gamble on a horse with a giant hole in his racing ability! Studs like this usually are bred to mares who show the same traits that he has. 11.wp
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he would never be a commercial sire for the reasons you suggested
if the new buyer wants to try and use his mares so be it