By Calvin L. Carter and Dallas Carter
©2017 Calvin L. Carter. All rights reserved.
The ability to know the potential of a horse before he goes to the breeding
shed, sales ring or race track is of utmost importance.
Classic
Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC – a new vision, standard of excellence for
an old industry – is an innovative bloodstock consulting firm and leader in
cutting-edge software analysis of Thoroughbred breeding, sales and race
potential. The empirical data gathered
by the robust power of the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® software
easily shows which horses have the potential to be quality stakes winners or
classic champions.
In 2016, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds
profiled 101 yearlings listed in the Keeneland September Sale. Each
of those profiled yearlings had a grade ranking of an A+ or A.
Now, there are numerous, promising two year
olds in training from that sales list. Also from the Keeneland sales list we
now have two graded stakes winners: Free Drop Billy (G1-Claiborne Breeders’
Futurity) and Archaggelos (G3-Grey Stakes).
In addition, of the 16 horses currently
listed on the 2018 Kentucky Derby Leaderboard,
four (25%) of them are from our Keeneland Sales list.
STAKES
WINNERS
Of the yearlings profiled at the 2016
Keeneland September Sale, we now have two graded stakes winners.
FREE DROP BILLY (Hip 104), a chestnut colt by Union
Rags out of Trensa by Giant’s Causeway, is a half-brother to multiple group
stakes winner Hawkbill
and was purchased for $200,000 by agents Kempton/Berkelhammer for the Albaugh Family
Stable. Here’s the video of Free
Drop Billy in the Auction Ring.
Free Drop Billy is trained by Dale Romans and
he has an A Classic Champion Thoroughbred
Profile®. In
four starts, he’s
compiled a 2-2-0 record including a second-place finish in both the Sanford
Stakes (G2) and Hopeful Stakes (G1), and a runaway four-length win in the
Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity Stakes (G1). Here’s the video and chart call of
His Grade One Futurity win:
In
his two previous stakes races, Free Drop Billy came up just shy of victory.
However, his breeding shows that he has the potential to excel as the races get
longer and he did not disappoint stretching out in the Grade One Claiborne Breeders’
Futurity.
"We always thought
(it would suit him)," Romans said in a Bloodhorse news story. "If you look at all his numbers on
paper, every time they stretched a race a bit, he got a little bit better.
Today I think we saw what he is really capable of."
Free
Drop Billy has good breeding and I look for him to be a factor on the Kentucky
Derby Trail.
ARCHAGGELOS
(Hip 2138), a bay colt by Temple City
out of Mien by Nureyev, is a half-brother to dual classic winner Big Brown
and was a $200,000 RNA for consignor Monticule, LLC.
Archaggelos
is trained by Michael Dickinson and he has an A Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile®. In three
starts, Archaggelos has compiled a 2-1-0 record including an authoritative 2¾
length win in the Grey Stakes (G3). Here’s a look at the video
and chart call of his win in the Grey Stakes
(G3).
Archaggelos
“strode clear with authority to take the
GIII Grey Stakes at Woodbine Sunday by two lengths,” according to a
Thoroughbred Daily News article.
He paid $21 for the win which was especially impressive as Dickinson wheeled
him back off one week’s rest from breaking his maiden at Laurel Park on
September 24.
I
look for Archaggelos to improve off of that effort and he has the breeding to
be a factor on the Kentucky Derby Trail.
KENTUCKY DERBY LEADERBOARD
Of the 16 horses currently listed on the 2018
Kentucky
Derby Leaderboard, four (25%) of them are from our 2016
Keeneland Sales list.
GOOD MAGIC (Hip 845), a chestnut colt by Curlin
out of Glinda the Good by Hard Spun, was a $1 million session four sale topper purchased
by agent Mike Ryan for E5 Racing.
Here’s the video of Good Magic in the auction ring:
“He’s as good a Curlin as you’ll see,” said Ryan in
a Bloodhorse news story. “Curlin is Curlin. In my mind he’s as good as
Tapit.”
Trained by Chad Brown, Good Magic has an A Classic
Champion Thoroughbred Profile® and he’s compiled a 0-2-0 record in two starts
including a narrow half-length loss in the Grade One Champagne Stake. Here’s the video and chart call of that race:
In
just his second start, Good Magic looked good finishing second in the Grade One
Champagne and he has room to improve off of that effort. He has the breeding to be
competitive and I look for him to be a factor as a three year old on the
Kentucky Derby Trail.
HOLLYWOOD STAR (Hip 395),
a dark bay or brown colt by Malibu Moon out of Hollywood Story by Wild Rush,
was a $550,000 purchase by Kempton/Berkelhammer for the Albaugh Family Stable.
Hollywood
Star has an A Classic
Champion Thoroughbred Profile® and he’s compiled
a 1-2-0 record in three starts for trainer Dale Romans including second-place
finishes in both the Saratoga Special Stakes (G2) and Iroquois Stakes (G3).
Here’s the video and chart call
of the Iroquois:
Hollywood
Star narrowly lost to Tabulator by three quarters of a length but he has the
breeding to excel as the distances get longer and I look for him to be a factor
on the Kentucky Derby Trail.
SOLOMINI
(Hip 662), a chestnut colt by Curlin
out of Surf Song by Storm Cat, was purchased for $270,000 by Zayat Stables, LLC.
Conditioned
by Hall of Fame Trainer Bob Baffert, Solomini has an A+ Classic Champion
Thoroughbred Profile® and he’s compiled
a 1-1-0 record in two starts including a second-place finish in the FrontRunner
Stakes (G1). Here’s the video and chart call
of that race:
In
just his second start, Solomini looked good to get up for the second-place
finish. He has good breeding and I look for him to be a factor on the Kentucky
Derby Trail.
*****
With over 22 years of experience studying
Thoroughbreds, Calvin is the creator of the Classic Champion Thoroughbred
Profile® which was developed into a software program by his brother, Dallas, in
2014.
The profile assigns each horse a numerical score and grade ranking which
is the indicator of that horse’s potential. The higher the score, the more
potential that horse has to become a quality stakes horse or classic champion.
In 2015, we made this video about the software program:
The profile software is a powerful analytical
tool that takes the guesswork out of breeders making mating selections, it also
evaluates the graded stakes and classic potential of horses bought at auction or in handicapping races.
BREEDING
● The Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile®
unlocks the secret of the Ancestral Herd influence.
● Is a valuable analytical tool that shows
horse owners and breeders how a mare can upgrade or downgrade a stallion she is
bred to through the profile score of the foal from that mating.
●
Shows if the foal has the potential to be a quality stakes horse or classic
champion.
●
Shows horse owners how their entire herd of bloodstock can be upgraded by using
the profile score to help them make the best breeding decisions resulting in
less overbreeding and fewer potential equine welfare issues.
SALES,
AUCTION
● The Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® is
a valuable Thoroughbred sales analytical tool that shows buyers at auction how
make the best decisions and investments when buying horses.
● Shows buyers at auction how to save on
their time and monetary investments by helping them to zero in on the horses
that have the best potential to become graded stakes winners or a Classic
Champion Thoroughbred.
RACING,
HANDICAPPING
●
The Classic Champion
Thoroughbred Profile® shows handicappers, horse owners and trainers which
horses have the best potential to be a top-quality stakes winner or a classic
winner of races like the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont.
●
Shows horse owners and trainers the best race distance that their horse will have
the most success, be it in sprint racing, middle distance or routing, and can
help them spot their horses in those races.
If you are
planning to breed, or purchase horses at auction, the Classic Champion
Thoroughbred Profile® is the analytical tool you need to take the guesswork out
of breeding and buying champion racehorses. The profile will give you the
important information necessary to make the best decisions and investments when
breeding or buying horses at auction.
If you are
racing horses, the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® can help you spot
them in races where they will have the most success.
