My Storm Cat colt
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I was at the Keeneland September sales from Saturday through Monday, and we ended up buying into a yearling who sold on the first day of the sales, to Team Valor, whom I own two fillies through (both are retired, in foal, and to be sold at Keeneland November). This time, we rolled the dice and went with a colt. Less residual value if he fails to do well; tremendous upside if he succeeds.
He's got an incredibly SIM pedigree, by Storm Cat out of Manistique. He's tons better looking than her Forestry filly (now three) that we saw at the Keeneland September sales two years ago. Manistique's 2yo is a full brother, named Storm Man, who wasn't offered at auction.
I'm a little disappointed in the name, but love everything else about him. The name is going to be Old Ninety Eight. There's a story to it - Manistique is apparently somewhere in the upper peninsula of Michigan, so Barry wanted to go with a Michigan theme, and Old Ninety Eight was Tom Harmon's nickname, and he apparently was a big deal football player there. Tom's son, Mark Harmon, was also a football player, now actor (NCIS).
Best of all, he's going to be trained by Dale Romans and based at Churchill, starting sometime this spring, which is a 10 minute drive from my house, so I'll get to visit him lots!
Keeping my fingers crossed,
Laura
He's got an incredibly SIM pedigree, by Storm Cat out of Manistique. He's tons better looking than her Forestry filly (now three) that we saw at the Keeneland September sales two years ago. Manistique's 2yo is a full brother, named Storm Man, who wasn't offered at auction.
I'm a little disappointed in the name, but love everything else about him. The name is going to be Old Ninety Eight. There's a story to it - Manistique is apparently somewhere in the upper peninsula of Michigan, so Barry wanted to go with a Michigan theme, and Old Ninety Eight was Tom Harmon's nickname, and he apparently was a big deal football player there. Tom's son, Mark Harmon, was also a football player, now actor (NCIS).
Best of all, he's going to be trained by Dale Romans and based at Churchill, starting sometime this spring, which is a 10 minute drive from my house, so I'll get to visit him lots!
Keeping my fingers crossed,
Laura
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Laura already knows how pumped I am. I stalked Manistique lots. I stalked her now 3yo lots, with Laura's help. I'm now going to use Laura to stalk the yearling lots.
YAY MANISTIQUE!!
YAY MANISTIQUE!!
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Still just own the nose, buying the head would have been way too pricey. Here's a link to an article on him (plus picture!)
<a href='http://teamvalor.com/news/091406/' target='_blank'>http://teamvalor.com/news/091406/</a>
And Jolene, the Steward _is_ a professional racehorse stalker. If there's a horse you want to see, and he or she is at the track, Em can and will find the horse. We've gotten extraordinarily good at it at both Churchill and Keeneland. For example, Barbaro's trainer kept trying to trick the media and hide him, when he was training for the Derby at Keeneland (putting the pony in Barbaro's stall, and Barbaro in the stable pony's stall, grazing Barbaro seven barns away, etc.), but we kept finding him.
<a href='http://teamvalor.com/news/091406/' target='_blank'>http://teamvalor.com/news/091406/</a>
And Jolene, the Steward _is_ a professional racehorse stalker. If there's a horse you want to see, and he or she is at the track, Em can and will find the horse. We've gotten extraordinarily good at it at both Churchill and Keeneland. For example, Barbaro's trainer kept trying to trick the media and hide him, when he was training for the Derby at Keeneland (putting the pony in Barbaro's stall, and Barbaro in the stable pony's stall, grazing Barbaro seven barns away, etc.), but we kept finding him.
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Yeah, he's hot
I saw some pictures of him on the Final Turn Gallery too... see:
<a href='http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_G' target='_blank'>http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_G</a>
<a href='http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_3' target='_blank'>http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_3</a>
<a href='http://www.finalturngallery.com/Keenela ... tique_colt' target='_blank'>http://www.finalturngallery.com/Keenela ... ue_colt</a>
I love his pretty striped hooves.
I saw some pictures of him on the Final Turn Gallery too... see:
<a href='http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_G' target='_blank'>http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_G</a>
<a href='http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_3' target='_blank'>http://www.finalturngallery.com/album187/20_3</a>
<a href='http://www.finalturngallery.com/Keenela ... tique_colt' target='_blank'>http://www.finalturngallery.com/Keenela ... ue_colt</a>
I love his pretty striped hooves.
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I was browsing through stuff about the Keeneland sales and saw this on Bloodhorse:
Hip No. 20, a Storm Cat -- Manistique colt, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.
"He's just an awesome-looking Storm Cat - big, stretchy, and black," said Frank Taylor, of Taylor Made. "And he's got a lot of leg. You've got the scope, and you've got the size, plus you've got the body. He got the best of Storm Cat and Unbridled (grade I winner Manistique's sire). He's got everything you would want."
I was like, hey that's Laura's horse! So I had to come post here.
Hip No. 20, a Storm Cat -- Manistique colt, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.
"He's just an awesome-looking Storm Cat - big, stretchy, and black," said Frank Taylor, of Taylor Made. "And he's got a lot of leg. You've got the scope, and you've got the size, plus you've got the body. He got the best of Storm Cat and Unbridled (grade I winner Manistique's sire). He's got everything you would want."
I was like, hey that's Laura's horse! So I had to come post here.
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