How did you do? (gallops)

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Darcy McBride
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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Out of 78 TB yearlings:

Freak https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1085692 (DR or DM?).
(My first Homebred DR/DM Freak. This one should be interesting.)

Stakes https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1089607 (DR)
Happy to have a Kingdom Come Stakes horse; the mare is Formidable, but has produced 2 Allowances and this Stakes (and a Solid)

Stakes https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1086883 (TM)
Blue Hen mare's 3rd foal & she's finally produced a decent one

20 Allowance
14 Productive
14 Solid
26 Claimer (ACK!)
1 Different Career (Steeplechaser)

Better gallops then last year. Of course, the ones I thought would be good ones were not! lol

Sweet Sinsation produced another Freak on her last mare swap.
Sinsational had twins; filly is a Stakes; colt is a Solid. (Another mare swap).

That about wraps it up for this year
DM: AMERICATION MISCHIEF & JAMBOREE
TM: NIGHTWATCH
DS: SINISTER MISTER/THE HELLHOUND/DARKANDSTORMYNIGHT
AWR: TUSCANY GOLD
QH DS: EL RAY SOL
QH DM: MARK ME CHROMED
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Ash Tarasin
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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27% allowance or higher. A thought better than last year but fairly similar.

Stakes

Hold Above x Dream Away (Father Ralph) Sing Back Louder's and Hear Your Voices' little sister. Dream Away is becoming older and I thought I'd rather borrow the brushes from someone with a far greater knowledge of the game than I.
Super x Zubesha (Anointed) Unexpected surprise. Probably a random positive slide. The dam is a first generation homebred, nicking high for being formidable. Granddaughter of millionaire Oak Park-daughter Six Ways to Sunday.
After the Disco x Mystery Talent (Man of Mystery). This is Mystery Talent's third stakes-galloping offspring. Only one has hit the track yet and he was obnoxiously hard to get to run proper. Thus I haven't got too high expections on this one yet.

Allowance

Rapport x Purified by Fire (Anointed). Due to Steward-bred Unbreakable Bond. I love this mare! Her best foal to date was allowance and earned more than twice the amount of her stakes-galloping younger siblings. Thus, hope!
Man of Mystery x Prequenza (Hold Above) Full sister to an older speedily working allowance filly who didn't much enjoy being a lanky 2yo teenager. Purified by Fire's granddaughter.
Dragonfly x Zephirine (James Dean). Sometimes I just fall in love with pedigrees.. (also Purified by Fire's granddaughter)
Blue Bayou x Idle as it Seems (Man of Mystery) Purified by Fire's granddaughter
Westwood x Mandragora (James Dean) Maternal line trailing back to Grant's dam
Ashwinder x Valasha (Circle of Life) Valasha's out of the mare who effectively crushed my preconceived idea that a star A- nicking mare with a spotless pedigree and a nice race record per default would produce something real nice.
Farseer x Zayshara (James Dean) Mystery Talent's granddaughter.
Steelslayer x Anjana (Rillian) Anjana is my stakeswinning allowance good B nicking broodmare who is far better at throwing allowance runners than I am.
Tin Dog x Keszthely (Distant Dream). Unexpected.
At the Gallow's End x Westward Speed Ho (The Last Lion) I was really happy with my other The Last Lion-daughter and Sean Gallagher kindly let me buy Westward Speed Ho. Thank you Sean!
I See My Way Home x Caretina (Muto). Caretina has given me G2 and G3-placing 300k-earning allowance horses as well as "takes-a-while-to-break-my-maiden"-types. Fingers crossed this is one the better ones.
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Eric Hamme
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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32 yearlings total

5 allowance
6 productive
6 solid
11 claimer (oof)
4 different career (1 was a chaser, 1 was an AW purchase I made two days ago that didn't work, 1 I didn't realize until today I bred the mare to Many Nights when I meant to breed her to Mary Names, and the last looks like a *bleep* happens moment)

Overall, this feels like a downgrade.
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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I bred 59 TBs this season one I’m not counting yet because he is a steeplechaser BUT....

I got

3 Stakes ( Super, Indominus, Timelord)

13 Allowance (Doctor Who X 2, Saturday Silence, Excelsior, All of Time, One Look Back, Consecration, Fireproof, Take Me Up, Dignify, Silence Fallen, Master command, Walk Off Grandslam)

15 Productive

6 Solid

21 Claimers
Mike Eaton
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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I have 15 yearlings
1 stakes (Steward bred) 6.66%
7 allowance 46.66%
1 productive 6.66%
2 solid 13.33%
4 claimer 26.66%

I am not happy with this. By the time racing age comes I try to only have stakes or better. You will be seeing most on the sales page soon!
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Fanta Arcadia
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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Aloha 'oe, My Heart of Hearts' last foal, galloped claimer which pretty much sums up my yearling crop except for one exception (Superbia being a stakes).
Superbia --> SC Winning Stud from the My Heart of Hearts dynasty --> 40,000 fee
Quetzalcoatl --> G1 winner, Son of SC winner Luxuria, 20,000 fee
Filled With Pride --> G1 winner, Son of SC winner Superbia, 20,000 fee
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Brian Leavitt
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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Very disappointing crop overall.

0 freaks
2 stakes (both dirt router colts, which means they might as well be allowances)
15 allowances
8 productives
8 solids
11 claimers

Feels like I have too many mares that can't contribute much, and the highest quality ones are also producing letdowns (I think this one being a productive hurts the most). I mean, at least I've bred some stakes gallopers with the last couple of crops, but almost all of them have been routers, where it can be very hard to compete with anything that's not a freak.

Selling off some of my broodmares will hopefully let me focus a little better and cut down on feeling like I'm throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in my relatively miniscule bank account just to make an army of horses that probably can't even win claiming races.
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Andrew James
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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Numbers wise I seem to be in line with everyone else, but I am pretty thrilled with the results so I guess it's all about expectations.

First some observations, then the results.
1) My fillies performed much better than colts on raw numbers but this is greatly skewed by my attempts to support Thunder Run. Still, 8 stakes fillies and 0 stakes males really shows you get what you pay for. I invested significantly more money into my filly sires than colt sires.
2) Thunder Run is really picky, he's doing great with Anointed and Tahoe mares though.
3) I bred 16% more foals this year than last but saw my stakes jump from 2 (<1%) to 8 (2.33%). Very very happy with this improvement.
4) Still have never bred a Freak. That's the one breeding goal for this year!

Numbers:

Males

Allowance 20.25%
Productive 14.11%
Solid 15.95%
Claimers 49.69%

Females

Stakes 4.44%
Allowance 23.89%
Productive 18.33%
Solid 18.33%
Claimer 35.00%

Total

Stakes 2.33%
Allowance 22.16%
Productive 16.33%
Solid 17.20%
Claimer 41.98%

Stakes Gallopers:

Allonsy - Father Ralph - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1067772
California Chrome - Cyberman - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1085445
Doctor Who - You Are I Am - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1090862
Man of Mystery - In My Blood - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1081572
Selati - Cyberman - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1082223
Walk Off Grandslam - Look I Am Scary - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1069510
Warpath - Light of the Moon - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1090721
Zero - Are Lions Real - https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1090805
AJR SC Winners: Karsa, Can't Reconcile, The Reckoners, Amsterdam, Forge of Darkness, Nightchill, The Wheel of Time
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

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20 foals
2 stakes (Pacer by Ancient Truth) and TM filly by Shattering Hearts
8 allowance
3 productive
2 solids
3 claimers
2 rethinking their life choices

I was bummed initially at the absence of any freaks, but in retrospect, after reading the horror stories from others in the preceding posts, I reckon it ain't all so bad after all.

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Pete Vella wrote: 5 years ago how do i gallop horses again?
Very carefully
Got bombed, got frozen
Got finally off to finally dozin’
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Mike Bryant
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Re: How did you do? (gallops)

Post by Mike Bryant »

here are mine

470 Yearlings
1 Freaks - (DS)Conterfit
43 Stakes (9%)
145 Allowance (31%)
96 Productive (20%)
79 Solid (17%)
105 Claimers (22%)
1 Different Career

Pretty much the same percentage as the year before!
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