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Sweetnessandlight was one of the horses on my radar when I was scouring the sellers and claimers for a new recruit for our syndicate. She ran in a selling handicap on 27th July off a mark of 63. She won that race and connections bought her back in for £8,500.
She followed that win up with 2 wins in handicaps and then a staying on 4th in a Group 3 at Sandown on 1 September.
She’s now been given a mark of 100.
Apart from proving that not every horse to run in a seller is useless, I cannot think of another horse to have run in a seller and a Group race within the space of 5 weeks.
Connections should be given credit for tilting her at the Group race while she was in form but it was surely madness to risk losing a horse which they presumably knew had such a level of ability in a seller?
Maybe they didn’t know she had so much ability, horses do improve and surprise and she did only cost 800, she could be flattered by 100.
Presumably Fahey wouldn’t have run Queen Aggie in a claimer a couple of weeks ago and end up losing her for 10 grand if he knew she would recoup more than that purchase price a few days later in a conditions race.
I can remember Penny Drops winning a claimer off 47 at Haydock a few years ago and going on to win many races including Group 2/3 and listed races.
Very hard to get fillies back when they are in this sort of form so I’d be throwing her at every fillies graded race around as next year she won’t be anything like this, make hay while the sun shines.
Red Lancer not only ran in a group race a few months after running in a Wolver seller but won it.
He must have been some ‘value’ that day at Wolver………..
Well, remind me of Charismatic really. Placed not once but twice in claiming races by his owner, and three months later, he wins the Kentucky Derby, which he follows up with a Preakness Stakes win. From a claimer to being talked about as the first possible triple crown winner since Affirmed, he even led during the final straight but fractured a leg in the run-in and ended up in third. The aftermath of the race is also incredibly famous with the late Chris Antley (about a whole movie could be written as well) holding the horse’s leg and possibly saving the horse in the process.
I think there’s a movie produced by ESPN on youtube, which I think you guys should really check out.
https://theracingforum.co.uk/horse-r … ob#p428609
Junoob – wins a Cl6 claimer and is a head second in the listed Quebec stakes 15 days later and two months after that wins the winter derby trial.
It’s a great story Tuffers, and a great story for new owners to hear. Perhaps they knew that only a mad man would race such a animal in a seller. Perhaps that was the very thing that stopped any one getting interested in it, this is too good to be true, why would they run it in a seller. ho ho ho !
Jason Ward would be pretty safe running a horse in a 4 horse selling race at Southwell that’s claim to fame was scraping home in a 0-60. Those that know him wouldn’t bid against him and no one is going to pay a fortune for a horse who has beaten horses rated no higher than you would rate a donkey.
When she ran in the seller Thirsk she was heavily supported most like by Ward himself so if you want to bid against a guy who has say 10k of a start on you then you are going to have to pay through the nose> on this occasions as Tuffers says she was bought in for 8,500 which probably cost the owner nothing and to keep her he’d probably have gone to twice that.
She’s certainly improved but I’m not sure if Jason Ward did the right thing running her in such a competitive Group 3.
It appears he and his wife owns the horse so I imagine they are thinking about how much more she would be worth if placed in a Group race and she gets Black Type on her resume.
A small yard like theirs I would imagine the plan is to sell her in the near future………If you have 600,000 quid you can have her Tuffers
Unfortunately she has missed out by finishing 4th so now he has to find another Group race as she is goosed in handicaps having gone up from 81 to 100 for that run.
I would imagine they were tearing their hair out after that race.
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