Yeah I had to put one of Gentle's lines in my sig file. Too funny.
1. Caesar Augustus
2. Yep
3. I'm nominating him because (this might make my upcoming simcast a bit redundant, sorry Em but we have a contest here for Pete's sake!) for all intents and purposes this horse should STINK. He was my first horse, I created him right after I joined and I had absolutely, positively not a single inkling of a clue as to what I was doing. I just picked a sire and a broodmare sire that I liked without giving any thought as to whether or not they might fit together.
For confirmation of this all you really have to do is check out his record. I figured, "Giant's Causeway, hmmm, yeah definitely a dirt horse" and ran him in a 7f dirt race at Saratoga, where he promptly got pwned finishing up the track in 9th (6 lengths behind the second to last place horse) and was obviously never a threat.
After that I somehow figured out that grass might just be this horse's preferred surface (gee, ya think?) and I put him in a newb stakes race at Trial Park. I was as shocked as I could possibly be when I logged the morning after results to see that he'd won it. Wow, he won. What do I do next? I had no clue so it was time to call in the experts and somehow mustered up the courage to ask on the forum. The general consensus (ok, it's what Laura told me to do) is that he wanted to go longer. I couldn't find anything else at Trial Park at that time so I shipped him down to Chile, stretched him out another quarter mile and entered him in a stakes race there. He ended up 3rd in that race and in the process was completely destroyed by Tejano Tribute, but I was perfectly happy with going from 1st in a minor newb stakes to a 3rd in a stakes featuring open company in only his 3rd start, and TT was no slouch.
From there he went to Germany (uh Kev, too much shipping here) and did one better, finishing 2nd to Streamer in the Goeritz Intransco. Tejano Tribute won the previous race by 10, Streamer won by 3. Progress......progress.
Next up was the Canadian International where he met his pal Voltaic for the first time, and I'll be damned if he didn't win the thing. It was at this point that I realized I may actually have a halfway decent horse on my hands here, although it should be said that Voltaic got his revenge 3 short weeks later in the Joe Hirsch. After the Joe Hirsch I made my second major mistake with him. I had dollar signs in my eyes and didn't give him enough rest, entering him in the Champion Stakes with only 1 week off between races and he finished 5th. That was 5th to some good horses, but I thought it was a little below par.
Having clearly failed to learn my lesson (I did drop the blinks at this point, but that isn't the lesson I'm talking about here) I shipped him down to Dubai for the City of Gold/Sheema double (again, only 1 week off between those two races). Following the pattern, he won the City of Gold and as Dr. Hacklu predicted about 37 separate times before the race he ran a tired race in the Sheema and came in 4th, watching Voltaic's (and X Marks The Spot's) tail once again. Considering the competition in that race 4th is perfectly respectable. I think that's worth mentioning.
I gave him a nice long rest and off that rest he ran perhaps his greatest race to date on Tuesday night, defending his Canadian International by 5 3/4. Now I'm sending him to the BC Turf. That I even HAVE a BC horse at all is a complete shock to me, that my #1 sentimental horse is also my BC horse is pretty cool to me. I wasn't sure I was going target the BC Turf but......I guess I am.
Caesar Augustus is obviously a sentimental horse for me, he was my first one, and I seriously think I may very well have left the game within a month of joining if it weren't for the checks he was bringing home once a month, fairly decent sized checks too. I got very, very, VERY lucky with this horse. He rocks my SIMworld.
4. <a href='
http://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.php?HorseID=32645' target='_blank'>
http://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.php ... D=32645</a>
I think that's about it.
