Congrats to KY

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I didnt see that one coming. Shame he didnt stay in FL.

[Kelly Kip]

Day-um!

[wooley85]

I didnt see that one coming. Shame he didnt stay in FL.

Was a big fan of Congrats. What were the quality of his mares in FL? He has had several winners for a first year sire. I thought for 4.5k, Congrats was a "bargain" considering he was a sturdy race horse w/ a great pedigree.

[Slewfan2]

Shouldn't these farms wait until a horse has more than 1 crop running before they decide to take a chance? If Congrats bombs next year with his 3 year olds or his 2nd crop of 2 year olds don't run, then it will have turned out to be a bad move.

[TBird]

Shouldn't these farms wait until a horse has more than 1 crop running before they decide to take a chance? If Congrats bombs next year with his 3 year olds or his 2nd crop of 2 year olds don't run, then it will have turned out to be a bad move.

Nobody's taking any sort of chance. Congrats is moving from Vinery's Florida farm to their Kentucky farm. If things don't work out in KY, it will be easy enough to move him back.

[Jas]

Huh. Good luck to them. I hope he continues surprising.

[mariasmon]

I figured Stevie Wonder would see this coming.

[Slewfan2]

Nobody's taking any sort of chance. Congrats is moving from Vinery's Florida farm to their Kentucky farm. If things don't work out in KY, it will be easy enough to move him back.

Thanks!

[wooley85]

I figured Stevie Wonder would see this coming.

If Congrats had won a G-1 race, he might have skipped FL and not gotten the some of the "creme de la creme" mares in FL to kick-off his career.

Congrats was winning stakes races at 5....and was always there in the end. Rarely ran a bad race...just didn't achieve what many of the racers in his family did.

[Intelligent Male]

Shouldn't these farms wait until a horse has more than 1 crop running before they decide to take a chance? If Congrats bombs next year with his 3 year olds or his 2nd crop of 2 year olds don't run, then it will have turned out to be a bad move.

If you wait until a horse is totally proven they won't be for sale at a price you can afford. And as Tbird mentioned there doesn't seem to be an ownership change involved in this move.

Glad to have a mare in foal to him for $4,500.

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If you wait until a horse is totally proven they won't be for sale at a price you can afford. And as Tbird mentioned there doesn't seem to be an ownership change involved in this move.

Glad to have a mare in foal to him for $4,500.

Me too. Not that I could have gone back to him for $15,000, even if he stayed, but I thought it would be nice for him to be top dog in FL, instead of lost in the shuffle in KY.

I suppose Sykes has loaded up all those mares and shipped them back north again.

[reverberate]

congrats might not have earned $1million but his first crop did

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Its a lot easier for 50 horses to earn a million than just one.

[Hermes]

I figured Stevie Wonder would see this coming.

I think he did

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I don't think that a $15,000 stallion gets lost in KY these days, as that kind of price range for a proven stallion (though granted, all first-year stallions are only "semi-proven") is all the rage right now.

I understand that. What I meant was that, at $15,000, he'd be top dog in FL. In KY, he's in the same price range as horses like Forestry, Grand Slam, Langfuhr, Proud Citizen, Successful Appeal, City Zip, Northern Afleet, Smoke Glacken, War Chant, Songandaprayer....lots more competition for mares in that range.