"A Note To Commercial Breeders And Pinhookers: Regarding the 2005 $9.7
Million Dollar Yearling and The Green Monkey"
By Michael Ventura, copyright 2006.
I for one find it quite interesting that the highest price auction sold equine of 2005 was a
yearling colt by Storm Cat and out of Tranquility Lake bought by Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid al Maktoum for $9.7 Million Dollars.
The reason is that the colt is bred on a Storm Cat/Rahy cross which gets a very good G1W
Based VGS of 13.13 based on 2 G1Ws and a GSW Based VGS of 6.38 based on 4 GSWs.
Perhaps this high VGS close up contributed to the good looks of the yearling that impressed
Sheikh Mohammad and the underbidder John Magnier so much. After all, it stands to reason
that a primary way for a cross to succeed unusually well at the highest level (as Storm
Cat/Rahy has) would be for the combination of their conformational and genetic traits to tend
toward the production a well balanced and put together animal.
Now lets look at the highest priced Auction Sold Equine of 2006 so far (and all-time, by the
way): the famous Forestry colt purchased by Coolmore for $16 Million Dollars (who ran 1f in
9.8 seconds prior to his sale and was just named The Green Monkey).
He is by a son of Storm Cat and from a daughter of Unbridled and this cross gets a G1Ws
Based VGS of 5.36 based on 1 G1W and a GSW Based VGS of 4.33 based on 2 GSWs.
Moreover, this cross is backed up by the affinity between Storm Cat and Unbridled’s sire
Fappiano, which gets a G1Ws Based VGS of 3.86 based on 4 G1Ws and a GSW Based
VGS of 3.46 based on 12 GSWs (a score that high based on a sample size of 12 is quite
impressive).
And while the specific source of Storm Cat in The Green Monkey (his sire Forestry) hasn’t got
a G1W with Fappiano yet, the VGS only predicted Forestry to get 0.03 G1Ws with Fappiano
so I wouldn’t exactly go holding that against the cross. Also, moving on to the GSWs we find
the Forestry/Fappiano cross gets a high GSWs based VGS of 11.01 based on the G3W
Congressionalhonor.
Million Dollar Yearling and The Green Monkey"
By Michael Ventura, copyright 2006.
I for one find it quite interesting that the highest price auction sold equine of 2005 was a
yearling colt by Storm Cat and out of Tranquility Lake bought by Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid al Maktoum for $9.7 Million Dollars.
The reason is that the colt is bred on a Storm Cat/Rahy cross which gets a very good G1W
Based VGS of 13.13 based on 2 G1Ws and a GSW Based VGS of 6.38 based on 4 GSWs.
Perhaps this high VGS close up contributed to the good looks of the yearling that impressed
Sheikh Mohammad and the underbidder John Magnier so much. After all, it stands to reason
that a primary way for a cross to succeed unusually well at the highest level (as Storm
Cat/Rahy has) would be for the combination of their conformational and genetic traits to tend
toward the production a well balanced and put together animal.
Now lets look at the highest priced Auction Sold Equine of 2006 so far (and all-time, by the
way): the famous Forestry colt purchased by Coolmore for $16 Million Dollars (who ran 1f in
9.8 seconds prior to his sale and was just named The Green Monkey).
He is by a son of Storm Cat and from a daughter of Unbridled and this cross gets a G1Ws
Based VGS of 5.36 based on 1 G1W and a GSW Based VGS of 4.33 based on 2 GSWs.
Moreover, this cross is backed up by the affinity between Storm Cat and Unbridled’s sire
Fappiano, which gets a G1Ws Based VGS of 3.86 based on 4 G1Ws and a GSW Based
VGS of 3.46 based on 12 GSWs (a score that high based on a sample size of 12 is quite
impressive).
And while the specific source of Storm Cat in The Green Monkey (his sire Forestry) hasn’t got
a G1W with Fappiano yet, the VGS only predicted Forestry to get 0.03 G1Ws with Fappiano
so I wouldn’t exactly go holding that against the cross. Also, moving on to the GSWs we find
the Forestry/Fappiano cross gets a high GSWs based VGS of 11.01 based on the G3W
Congressionalhonor.
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