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Investing in Barn Dispersal Sales
Original article written by Serenity Sky posted 8 months 1 week agoInvesting in dispersal sales can be a nice way to get some bloodstock into your barns. You truly never know what you’re going to find.
Dispersal sales are when a player’s horses are being sold and “dispersed’ into the Sim world due to the owner’s lack of attention to them and the game. Every single active horse that they own, whether foal, yearling, racer, broodmare, stud, etc. is put up for sale. The owner doesn’t get a say in which horses go to sale or not, so any horse of any quality is being put up for sale. No one knows exactly what they are getting from the sale. Horses often go for pretty cheap in these sales, and you may find a really amazing horse from these sales for a bargain price.
If you do enough research on a horse’s bloodlines and history, you can get a fair idea of how the horse may turn out to be, whether it comes to breeding or racing. If you’re lucky, you could find a broodmare who has the potential to throw some of the best horses on the track, or a young horse who has the potential to go on and win some stakes races.
Sometimes, even just bidding $1-$100 on every horse in a sale can prove worthy for you. Maybe you find a really nice gem and decide to flip the horse to make a pretty penny. Even if you don’t get that jaw dropping horse, you can still find a way to make money off of it, just like you would any normal horse you pick up from the sales. You can race it and see how it proves on the track. Even claimers have the potential to earn you money, and there is no harm in attempting to run the horse on the track.
The only disadvantage to this is that the horses have not been taken care of for a while. Younger horses are likely to not have any workouts, horses are likely to be very unfit and unable to be raced right away. However, if you’re patient enough and if this is not a big deal to you, then a younger horse, ideally 3 years old, should be a great investment.
So, keep an eye out on these dispersal sales and maybe you’ll find something worthwhile.