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No – the last horse actually owned in partnership was the hurdler/chaser Power Shared. His last run for us was in Nov 2010.
Subsequent to that I had Langley who ran in the partnership name, but no shares in him were ever sold and he was claimed in October 2011 by Tim Vaughan. Then I used the money from the claim to take a 50% share in a chaser called Tarateeno that Pat Murphy had been left with when his original owners went bust. He, sadly, broke a leg on the gallops in March 2012 and I’ve had no involvement in any form of ownership since then.
Mike,
I get tempted when I see something that looks interesting in a claimer or a sale, but then reality sets in and reminds me that although i could cover the initial outlay OK, the costs have risen to point where the annual outlay would be more than I could afford. So it would be a gamble on finding another one like Salute that could pretty much pay his way from prize money won – and my long term experience is that horses like him are very hard to come by.
I’m also now working with a leading trainer on the placing of his horses, which gives me an involvement in the bit I always enjoyed most without having to pay out any training fees!
As an example of temptation, there’s a 3-y-old colt called Mystic Blaze being sold at Tattersalls Newmarket tomorrow (Friday). I saw his debut on the July course in a classy maiden full of good looking horses – since then he’s left Clive Brittain after he retired and has raced only on the AW for Balding. I reckon gelding, a return to turf and a step up in trip are what he needs. He’ll probably fetch close to twenty grand, but off his current mark, can only race in class 4 handicaps paying four to five grand to the winning owner, so you’d need to win four of those just to cover his running costs.
Mystic Blaze sold for 16,000 gns, but I’ll never know if he’d have been a good purchase as he’s on his way to race in Greece.
Mystic Blaze sold for 16,000 gns, but I’ll never know if he’d have been a good purchase as he’s on his way to race in Greece.
Out of interest, Mystic Blaze suffered a fatal injury last February when he received a fracture at the metacarpus and both sesamoids of his left foreleg during a race. He had won his maiden in his previous race by over 12 lengths when his jockey received a final warning for excessive use of the whip despite winning easily. Both races were over 6 and a half furlongs.
Here’s his win https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjNO3Z18P0Q
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