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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:06 am Post subject: Timescales
Jenny,
Assuming we get enough members and have a meeting (aug / sep) to decide the 'ins & outs' etc, is there some idea of when we would looking to make the purchase? I ask, as if we go with the 'flat to go jumping' idea, when would the sales be and would this mean that the horse wouldn't be purchased / trained / entered until next years flat season???
Sky, it would very much depend, I think, on what we can get for our money! The major jumps sales are all pretty much finished by this time (see Racing Post website, Bloodstock for a sales schedule) unless we pop across to Keeneland......
HOWEVER, there are smaller breeze-up sales of horses in training and youngstock at the end of and before the NH season (eg the Brightwells' one I went to at Cheltenham) and I assume also probably smaller sales of Flat horses. There is also of course a private purchase, which has some advantages. First of all, the trainer could help us with this - they do it a lot. Second, if the horse was coming to their yard, they would obviously be interested in doing the best possible deal for us. We have a tremendous advantage, in that we have a fixed price, so the price can't be ramped, and the trainer would clearly not want to buy a horse that is overpriced for its quality, because this would mean potentially less success on the track and less likelihood of more horses coming to him/her.
It would be useful if someone could look up the various sales dates on the web. The RP Bloodstock site I think only covers the bigger sales.
Im sure there are people on here who know much more about the sales than I do!!
Will put this question on the list for (a) discussion with trainers and (b) for meeting. _________________ UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION!
Takeover Target. He only cost £500 or $500 aus dollars, not much anyway, cos they said he had crooked legs and he'd never do anything, and look at him now..
Takeover Target. He only cost £500 or $500 aus dollars, not much anyway, cos they said he had crooked legs and he'd never do anything, and look at him now..
Shamardal, this is true! However, that sort of lightning strikes about once a century, and we have to be REASONABLY realistic (puts on Aunty voice... )
Also, his trainer bought him almost as a rescue, he was not in a conventional yard (the trainer lived in a caravan and drove taxis for a living) and he spent about a year out in a field before he was even ridden again. There were no other horses for the trainer to deal with, so he had maximum attention. They must have worked incredibly hard with him, and have reaped their reward. But he is definitely a "one-off"! _________________ UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION!
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