{"id":3009,"date":"2006-09-22T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T23:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=3009"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=3009","title":{"rendered":"Spend A Buck: How One Of My Barns Hopes To Become Successful Again Through 10 $1 Auction Buys"},"content":{"rendered":"

On American cable TV is a show called Junk Brothers, a pair of brothers who go dumpster-diving, going into other people\u2019s castoffs and finding a gem in the trash to clean up, refurbish, repair, and give back to the original owners as a brand-spanking-new item.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It makes for decent (HG)TV here, but what in the name of Granny\u2019s nightie does it have to do with the Sim?\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Well, I\u2019ve set up an interesting twist on the Sim for myself, something where I can expand my interest in the game while trying to figure out what angles just might work, using what I know about the Sim in my experience.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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I\u2019ve been playing in the Sim now for two years, having signed up for my first stable back in September of 2004.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Since then, my Sim experience has been entertaining enough to have expanded my stables to\u2026a number I\u2019m not going to mention.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Let\u2019s just say it has been a pretty rewarding one playing this game, and a majority of the horses occupying these barns are homebreds, having traded in the horses that didn\u2019t work out and replacing them with my own breeding experiments.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If anything, the horse pool has been expanded by my new creations. That said, I\u2019m always looking to change things up, to keep things new and interesting, to see what exactly I can do as a Sim trainer\/breeder\/owner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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This idea started on a whim.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I have a stable that was struggling since the moment I created it.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The stable is named 1stsamurai<\/I><\/B>, for the now-retired colt who was a strong success at 2, and an erratic one at 3.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>From the start, it was up against it.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The horses I received initially were flops, the claims I made didn\u2019t pan out, and the horses I bred more or less stunk.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In just 32 starts, I had one win.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That\u2019s one, 1, uno, singular, unimpressive, pathetic.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I did have 4 thirds, and earnings too insignificant to remember.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It petered out as the namesake did, in the spring, and I just washed my hands of it.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I sent just about everything into the auction to be done with them, and kept only one homebred, and a Cozzene filly I wanted to breed over at 5.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The intent was to start from scratch, and\u2026<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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\u2026I never got around to it.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The two fillies were mediocre.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The homebred was traded in for a two-year-old I bred with the BP I managed to earn.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>As for the Cozzene filly, I bought credits and bred her over early, to Refuse To Bend(<\/SPAN>IRE<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker>); the results are inconclusive.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With the vacant stable, I didn\u2019t replenish it with active horses, but instead I used the money I had and started buying old mares that were left at auction, to use as broodmares.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>1stsamurai <\/I><\/B>was now just a holding stable for the new juveniles I bred, and when I would breed them, usually to inexpensive sires for credits, I shipped them off to other stables.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>When Sim money got tighter, I would transfer unraced two-year-olds in, and ship them out as spaces opened up elsewhere in my empire.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I finally got to a point where I had 8 BP and $150 left.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Not much you can do with a barn that empty of hope and money, right?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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That\u2019s when it hit me.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I wanted this barn back up and running, and with lesser resources to breed new horses than previously.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I can\u2019t claim, can\u2019t breed that many horses with what little the barn had left, and didn\u2019t feel much like letting it sit empty.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That left me with just one viable option: the auction.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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As you know, there\u2019s not much there<\/I> there when you have all of $150 to spend.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I wanted to fill my empty, poor barn with a full field of 10, and see if I couldn\u2019t turn this barn around with a whole lotta nothin\u2019.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It dawned on me that maybe, if I can\u2019t have superstars, maybe I could have fun.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>So, I set forth with a plan: buy ten horses at auction, anything I could get, and not for breeding purposes (no breeding them over until\/unless their time was up).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I could only spend a dollar on each.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If I got outbid, move on to another until the ten slots were filled with something.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Could 1stsamurai <\/I><\/B>rise like a <\/SPAN>New Orleans<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> from despair, relatively speaking, and become something special again?\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The challenge was on.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>And last week, 1stsamurai <\/I><\/B>was a busy, busy barn at auction.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ten horses, $10, and now the stable is prepping to start from scratch, with not a lot of resources.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>There\u2019s not going to be much in the way of stakes action with these; they\u2019re all going to run wherever it is they belong, and I\u2019m prepared to let the chips fall where they might.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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What did $10 get me?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Tomb Bank<\/SPAN><\/B>, a five-year-old son of Albert The Great x Solford who has won three times in 51 tries.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has not won since the end of last year, but is still capable of throwing in a decent race now and then.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Lea Peril<\/SPAN><\/B>, a two-year-old daughter of Chain Of Command x Astrodance who only got one mediocre grass race before being shipped to the auction.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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HR Street Smart<\/SPAN><\/B>, a two-year-old son of Dixieland Heat x Hoist The Silver who\u2019s been overmatched in three starts while not running too badly in any of them, all things considered.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Quick <\/SPAN><\/B>Mission<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, <\/SPAN><\/B>a six-year-old son of Strategic <\/SPAN>Mission<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> x Stack who hasn\u2019t won in 18 months but could be a decent claiming sprinter.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Lafayette Blues<\/SPAN><\/B>, a four-year old son of Touch Gold-Turtle Lady, by Tour D\u2019Or that should be spotted better in claiming company and has a nice pedigree for the price of a buck.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Figger Of Speech<\/SPAN><\/B>, a two-year-old son of Victory Speech x Tabib who is a maiden through four starts, but shouldn\u2019t be so long in breaking his maiden.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Star Lad T<\/SPAN><\/B>, a three-year-old daughter of Five Star Day x Icy Groom who took seventeen tries to win her first race, but who could be a cubic zirconium in the rough on grass.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Blushing Pony T<\/SPAN><\/B>, a three-year-old daughter of Onyxly-Forty Freckles, by Forty Niner who\u2019s been doing OK in the claiming ranks, but could do better.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Bumper Pool(<\/SPAN><\/B>IRE<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:stockticker>)<\/SPAN><\/B>, a four-year-old daughter of Black Tie Affair(<\/SPAN>IRE<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker>) x Slew O\u2019Gold who\u2019s well-bred, but struggling versus allowance horses and could benefit from some different TLC.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Boldly Reveal<\/SPAN><\/B>, a six-year-old son of Seacliff x Gone West who\u2019s shown some life signs at his advanced age despite not having won a race in three years.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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It\u2019s a line-up that wouldn\u2019t even strike fear in the hearts of the Oakland Raiders these days, but my goal is to turn this stable around enough so that I can soon breed a few decent horses, or at least claim a few better ones down the line.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It\u2019s an experiment in seeing if one man\u2019s trash really is another man\u2019s treasure, and seeing if you can create something from some inexpensive auction purchases in this game.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It doesn\u2019t affect my ability to get wins in any other barn I have, but it\u2019s for fun, to see if I can go against the conventional wisdom of the Sim\u2019s experts and succeed.\u00a0 These horses will all make an appearance within a couple of weeks, when they all become “ready To Go” and I can set training dates for them.<\/SPAN><\/P>

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You gotta spend a buck to make a buck, and I hope to even do better than that.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I\u2019ll try and track my progress and let you know if it\u2019s an idea worth pursuing, another new angle to bring some new success\u00a0for the more\u00a0adventurous players in this great game.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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