should we start a fund?

Have to love a story like this, posted today at the Daily Racing Form. Paul Saylor bought Fleet Indian for $290,000 a few years back at one of the KY mixed sales as a racing prospect, raced her to win a $1m+ with Todd Pletcher and is now crying in his beer that he could only sell her for somewhere in the neighborhood of $4m as a broodmare prospect. Only in America, baby. She's in foal to Storm Cat, who's not as commercially hot as he has been for the past, oh, decade, and he's annoyed that the big buyers (i.e. Coolmore and the UAE crowd) stayed away from her. Can we start something up on paypal for the guy? His Ashado money might be running low, I guess. Don't know him from a hole in the wall, but his handlers (doesn't everyone have them these days?) need to tweak his talking points. Fleet Indian was a nice mare, sure, but more the product of great placement (Pletcher's strength) and light competition, which just seems the overall direction of the distaff division these days.

Also, check out a piece on the Barnes and Noble head honcho, who is building up a broodmare operation. Now all that insider selling starts to make sense, huh?

Trip south to look at weanlings postponed until early next week. One of the babies was interviewing for admittance to a high end pre-school, so we were left to sit tight. I know, I know, you'd think these people would know with whom they're dealing...Apparently, word has been slow to get down to such parts. No hard feelings (this time). We'll do our thang soon enough.