Another week for spinsanta2 and some surprises in store.\u00a0 Overall it was a good week for earning with four runners taking in 110 bps.\u00a0 This was a good lessons learned week and the biggest lesson learned might have been how much luck comes in to play with this game.\u00a0 First we\u2019ll talk about the less interesting runners.<\/p>\n
Funny Mambo<\/a> was claimed on February 17th<\/sup> for $7,500.\u00a0 This NY-bred by D\u2019Funnybone won that claiming race by a head with a 90 speed. \u00a0The race was 4.5f on turf.\u00a0 I claimed him because he was a consistent NY-bred.\u00a0 His current record is 41-13-11-7 and over $500k in the bank.\u00a0 He runs on dirt and turf.\u00a0 He\u2019s not a world beater and he\u2019s eight years old so his best days are certainly behind him.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 This stable is aimed at earning bps quickly and a horse who has run in the money 31 times can earn.\u00a0 The last time he faced NY-bred competition came in a residency restricted stakes race in 2016 where he finished 5th<\/sup> with a 105 speed (his career best was a 108 run in 2014).\u00a0 So for $7,500 and 15 bps I thought I could make a buck.\u00a0 Funny Mambo raced for me on March 11th<\/sup> in a 5.5f dirt Starter Allowance for NY-bred horses with a $10,000 tag.\u00a0 A confirmed front runner he struck out for the early lead and held gamely in stretch only allowing one horse to pass him.\u00a0 That second place finish was worth 30 bps for the stable and he came back RTG.\u00a0 Interestingly there are two $25,000 starters for NY-breds at 6f dirt on March 17th<\/sup>.\u00a0 He\u2019s already entered in to one.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n Louisiana bred six year old mare Cardinal Mission<\/a> was a $1 auction pickup.\u00a0 You cannot go wrong with a horse for $1.\u00a0 The worst thing that can happen with a horse at that price is that you run it once or twice and don\u2019t earn so you drop it back into auction for a $0 reserve.\u00a0 Cardinal Mission was among a group of very lightly raced older horses that got dumped all at the same time.\u00a0 I picked up two other six year olds for the same price out of that group.\u00a0 Both were bred in South Africa and I have a stable specifically for South Africa-bred horses called SAFSPIN so that is where they were stalled.\u00a0 Cardinal Mission is by the sire Global Mission whom I had not heard of prior to this acquisition but he\u2019s a son of Danzig out of the Easy Goer mare Retrospective.\u00a0 Easy Goer was bred to an amazing book of mares but as a sire he was pretty much a dud.\u00a0 He died at just eight years of age but considering how many great mares he saw he should have had more success.\u00a0 But I digress.\u00a0 Cardinal Mission had one race prior to my purchase.\u00a0 She raced on February 24th<\/sup> in a 15f MSW on the turf.\u00a0 She actually was second in that race where she ran a 42 speed.\u00a0 You might assume that the horses she defeated that day were owned by the CPU but that was true only for one of the two who finished behind her.\u00a0 On March 10th<\/sup> she returned to action under my silks in a LA-bred $125,000 MCL for 4+ females.\u00a0 Shockingly that was a computer carded race.\u00a0 Cardinal Mission was the only privately owned entry in the race and she ran away with it wiring the field with lightning quickness running a 56 speed and winning in hand by one length.\u00a0 Needless to say she earned back her purchase price plus 40 bps.\u00a0 Her next start will be a tricky one.\u00a0 She will have to face winners \u2013 at least two of them!\u00a0 She\u2019s entered in a $2,500 claimer for LA-breds on March 17th<\/sup> with a NW4L conditions.<\/p>\n Tale of Six Crowns<\/a> was claimed for $4,000 on 2\/17.\u00a0 I have to issue an apology here to my fellow BTBer Roxyken.\u00a0 I took this 5yo colt out of his stable THECHALLENGE2.\u00a0 I highly recommend reading his The Challenge series here in the BTB (he just started his third year of running it his latest installment can be read Here<\/a>).\u00a0 Tale of Six Crowns is a lesson in what not to do in an experiment like this.\u00a0 First of all he is a KY bred and if you are a faithful reader you know I like to capitalize on horses bred in locations outside of KY, IRE and ENG.\u00a0 The second lesson is that I didn\u2019t really pay attention to his conditions when I entered him.\u00a0 He ran back for me on March 9th<\/sup> in a $75,000 claiming race at 5f where he finished 8th<\/sup>.\u00a0 In a regular stable he has the potential to earn nicely in low-level claimers.\u00a0 He would have done really well for his previous connections if I didn\u2019t foolishly grab him.\u00a0 He is currently in the auction for a $0 reserve.<\/p>\n