Have you ever...........West Australian Racing

PieMan

Have you ever sold a horse or a dog, then it's come out and won for the new owners? I use to be a part owner in Calamine, and she's now won twice since I've sold her.

 

I was at Bunbury yesterday, and I have to be honest, I was happy for owners, but it did rip my heart a bit. Doh!!!!!!

 

I also owned a trotter who couldn't run for us, but won about 6 times for the new owner, even at G.P.

BC4E

Have you got another one for sale? 

I'm very interested.

TheDiva

you have to figure out what it would have cost you in training and agistment to get those two wins. Then work out whether it was worth it. Ive done the sums a few times (mainly on leased horses) and even though they won multiple times, would have been miles in front by not owning them. 

runyon

Not mine but know of a pacer that was about 60 start maiden that finished 60m last for one owner/trainer and was sold to another owner/trainer and less than 4 weeks later came out and won first up for him by over 12m. Started at $4.40 and knocked off the odds on pop. :O

Tivers

We sell / give away a lot of tried horses, and proud to say probably 90% of them go on to win race/s.

But that's the point - if we don't think they're capable then we won't give them to racing people (give away as hacks only) - maintain your reputation for offloading only decent horses and hence keep the avenues for moving horses on quickly and easily open (and hence as Diva says - keeping your own costs down).

Best earner ever gave away ended up winning just over $100k.

Will point out the guy we gave it to also gave it away in turn.

PieMan

What hurt even more is, my wife's name is still in the book, and we didn't take the initiative of getting free entry. LOL

paraletic

as part of a very big syndicate we bought a horse, it won on debut by 3.5 lengths untouched, after this did literally f/a for the next 10 starts so we sold it to a guy in Alice for 2k. Went on to win 3 races in that prep so the new owners prob won about 20K in total. Broke down after that but I was happy the new owners got a decent quid out of it while we did our balls.

Thoroly_Bread

Yep just a few months ago and I'm still glad I gave it away it won a maiden at Pinny 2 preps afte I sold it I'd still be 20k in the hole if I kept it

Muldoon

the opposite we got a horse off a trainer who sacked it it was able to win a few races including one over the kalgoorlie round we were celebrating in the bar after the race he had a runner that day i asked if we could buy it off him he said no way had made him look silly already.He trained a few for for a bookmaker but they both faded into the night

JayJay

Had it both ways...got some horses from others that went terrible and others improved and won races. On sold a few that others had great success with and some that were never sighted again. Got a few broken down ones that came good - Terre and Meadow Sprite, a pretender with huge potential based on scintillating track work but never really produced in his races. Its swings and merry go rounds - some horses thrive in different training set ups, others don't. Bit like taking kids out to tea...sometimes they clean the plate and other times they won't eat a thing.