Monday, April 27, 2020

Arkansas Derby Racing Roundup: Division II


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In Division II of the Arkansas Derby, Nadal has been tabbed the 5-2 morning line favorite and, with an A Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile®, he is a colt we profiled as a yearling at the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. We also profiled Wells Bayou at the Keeneland Sale and he has an A Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile®.
A long shot I like is Code Runner and he is 50-1 morning line.
In this video we’ll take a look at Division number II of the Arkansas Derby which is race number 13 on the card with a Post time is 7:43 p.m. Eastern Time.



Arkansas Derby Racing Roundup


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In Division I of the Arkansas Derby, Charlatan has been tabbed the even money favorite. He’s a colt we profiled as a yearling at the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and he has an A Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile®. We also profiled Shooters Shoot at that sale and he has a C profile.
In this video we’ll take a look at Division number I which is race number 11 on the card with a Post time is 6:29 p.m. Eastern Time.

UPDATE - With the scratch of Shooters Shoot, I tweeted yesterday that could potentially benefit My Friends Beer (20-1).







Sunday, April 26, 2020

Unbridled Stakes Wrapup


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In today’s video we’ll take a look at the results of the Unbridled Stakes which was ran yesterday at Gulfstream Park. Blog readers that used my race picks could have cashed in on the Exacta, Trifecta and maybe even the Superfecta.



Thursday, April 23, 2020

Unbridled Stakes Analysis


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Hello everyone. Welcome to the 21st Century Thoroughbred.
In this video we’ll take a look at the Unbridled Stakes at Gulfstream Park this Saturday. Post time is 4:53 p.m. Eastern Time and it’s race number 9 on the card.



Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® - Sales

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Hello everyone. Welcome to the 21st Century Thoroughbred.
My name is Calvin Carter and I am the Owner of Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC Where I work as a Bloodstock Consultant.
In this video, I will explain how the Classic Champion Thoroughbred  Profile® is a proven, multifunctional software that can help buyers at auction purchase horses that have the best potential to be successful racehorses and breeders after they finish racing.



Monday, April 20, 2020

Arkansas Derby Nominations


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A total of 99 horses have been nominated to run in the 84th Arkansas Derby (G1) on May 2 and, according to Oaklawn Park Racing Secretary Pat Pope, if 20 horsemen commit to run in the race there’s a possibility that it will be split into two divisions.
Currently, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC has 43 horses profiled at auction that are nominated to the 2020 Triple Crown Trail. And, of the 99 Arkansas Derby (G1) nominations, 15 were profiled as yearlings at auction.
Here is the list of our profiled horses nominated for the Arkansas Derby (G1) in order of their Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® ranking:


1. Mr. Big News (Hip 3), a bay colt by Giant’s Causeway out of Unappeased (IRE) by Galileo (IRE), has an A+ profile and he’s trained by Bret Calhoun.

2. Azul Coast (Hip 1177), a bay colt by Super Saver out of Sky Treasure by Sky Mesa, has an A+ profile and he’s trained by Bob Baffert.

3. Shaka (Hip 21), a chestnut colt by Curlin out of Leh She Run by Pulpit, has an A+ profile and he’s trained by Michael Maker.

4. Sonneman (Hip 604), a dark bay or brown colt by Curlin out of Zardanna by Crimson Tide (IRE), has an A+ profile and he’s trained by Mark Hennig

5. Super John (Hip 1280), a bay colt by Super Saver out of Atlantic Park by Awesome Again, has an A+ profile and he’s trained by John Servis.

6. Enforceable (Hip 76), a gray or roan colt by Tapit out of Justwhistledixie by Dixie Union, has an A profile and he’s trained by Mark Casse.

7. Charlatan (Hip 669), a chestnut colt by Speightstown out of Authenticity by Quiet American, has an A profile and he’s trained by Bob Baffert.

8. Max Player (Hip 929), a dark bay or brown colt by Honor Code out of Fools in Love by Not For Love, has an A profile and he’s trained by Linda Rice.

9. Wells Bayou (Hip 3281) a bay colt by Lookin at Lucky out of Whispering Angel by Hard Spun, has an A profile and he’s trained by Brad Cox.

10. No Bad Days (Hip 2525), a bay gelding by Carpe Diem out of Bless by Mr. Prospector, has an A profile and he’s trained by Nick Zito.

11. Excession (Hip 855), a bay colt by Union Rags out of Draw It by Tapit, has an A profile and he’s trained by Steve Asmussen.

12. Nadal (Hip 1279), a bay colt by Blame out of Ascending Angel by Pulpit, has an A profile and he’s trained by Bob Baffert.

13. Scabbard (Hip 802), a chestnut colt by More Than Ready out of Cowgirl Mally by Gone West, has a C profile and he trained by Eddie Kenneally.

14. Life On the Road (Hip 1775), a dark bay or brown colt by Street Sense out of Easy Living by Big Brown, has a C profile and he’s trained by Steve Asmussen.

15. Shooters Shoot (Hip 2755), a bay colt by Competitive Edge out of Repeat by Bernardini, has a C profile and he’s trained by Peter Eurton.


Unlike other companies that provide automatic computer-generated pedigree analysis of yearlings at auction, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC personally handpicks from the sales catalog all yearlings to be profiled at auction based upon their breeding.
The ability to know the potential of a horse before he goes to the breeding shed, sales ring or racetrack is of utmost importance. Since the debut of our software as a sales analysis tool, we now have a total of 55 horses profiled at auction that have won or placed in national and international stakes competition.
From foal to finish line™, the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® is a proven analytical tool you need for breeding, purchasing horses at auction, and racing equine champions.
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.
Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC can provide prospective clients with a detailed analysis of horses at auction. Or, if you already have a team in place to evaluate the conformation and physicals of horses at auction, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC can provide you with a list of horses with the top Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® and best breeding, like our horses nominated for the Arkansas Derby, to be a successful racehorse.
If you are racing Thoroughbreds, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC can help owners and trainers spot their horses in stakes races where they will have the most success by analyzing the profiles of all the horses entered in the race.
For a free initial consultation to evaluate how Classic Champion Thoroughbreds can help you maximize your investment dollars when breeding, selling and racing Thoroughbreds, contact us at our website or call us toll free at (844) 346-2223.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

MR. BIG NEWS


In Today’s Economy, Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile
Helps Investors Get The Best Return On Their Dollar

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Now more than ever, in today’s economy horse owners, breeders, trainers, and anyone interested in purchasing yearlings at auction, need to be able to maximize their investment in Thoroughbreds. The Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® is the tool that can help you get the best return on the dollar.
As a sales analytical tool, the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® has a proven track record of taking the guesswork out of buying horses at auction by helping investors zero in on the horses that have the best potential to become stakes and graded stakes winners or, perhaps, a Classic Champion Thoroughbred.

Success Stories

The most recent success of the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® to pick horses at auction is Mr. Big News who won the Oaklawn Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
A bay colt by Giant's Causeway out of Unappeased (IRE) by Galileo (IRE), Mr. Big News has an A+ Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® (Hip 3) and he was one of 48 yearlings profiled by Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearling Sale.
However, Josh Stevens and Allied Racing Stable, LLC (not our clients) were the fortunate connections that purchased Mr. Big News for the bargain price of $95,000.
Mr. Big News was ranked third on our profile list and he is only one success story of many yearlings profiled by Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC at auction that went on to be successful in racing.
In 2016, we debuted our Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® software as a sales analytical tool at the 2016 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. From that sale, four yearlings went on to compete in the 2018 Kentucky Derby: Best of Sale Pick Good Magic (2017 Eclipse Champion Two Year Old Male), Vino Rosso (2019 Eclipse Champion Older Dirt Male), Solomini and Free Drop Billy.
Country House was not sold at auction but he is a colt we profiled (Hip 2203) as a yearling at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and he won the 2019 Kentucky Derby.
Unlike other companies that provide automatic computer-generated pedigree analysis of yearlings at auction, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC personally handpicks from the sales catalog all yearlings to be profiled at auction based upon their breeding.
The ability to know the potential of a horse before he goes to the breeding shed, sales ring or racetrack is of utmost importance. Since the debut of our software as a sales analysis tool, we now have a total of 55 horses profiled at auction that have won or placed in national and international stakes competition.

Powerful Racing Analysis Tool

In addition to being a powerful sales analytical tool, the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® is a proven racing analytical tool that 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. The profile can help owners and trainers spot their horses in stakes races where they will have success by analyzing the profiles of other horses entered in the race.
Mr. Big News winning the Oaklawn Stakes is a great example of the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® and it’s power to help owners and trainers spot horses in races where they will have the most success.
In the Oaklawn Stakes, Mr. Big News’ profile ranking towered over the other horses entered in the race and he’s the kind of horse I look for when handicapping horses on the Kentucky Derby Trail. (My outstanding track record of picking these horses is documented in numerous blog posts.)
The Oaklawn Stakes was not a Derby prep race, however, the pedigree of Mr. Big News showed that, if he lived up to his breeding, he had the potential to step up in class and pull off the upset. And. Indeed, he stepped up and won at 46.80-1 odds.
Here's a look at the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® ranking of the horses entered in the Oaklawn Stakes.





The Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® is a powerful analytical tool that measures the breeding, sales and racing potential of Thoroughbreds. The profile measures the breeding influences found in the five-generation pedigree, and it assigns the subject horse or foal a numerical score and grade ranking which is the indicator of that horse’s potential. The higher the score, the more potential that horse or foal has in becoming a quality stakes winner or classic champion.
For example, in the charts above, Mr. Big News profile ranking has him ranked first while the Brisnet Prime Power has him ranked dead last in a field of 13.
One anomaly that was evident in the early days of the profile, was that there were several horses on the Kentucky Derby Trail that had low profile scores, and yet, they were stepping up and winning or placing in major prep races on the trail. In order to account for that, we created the Behavior Index which has the potential to move some horses with low profile scores up in ranking. It also can move some horses with high profile scores down in ranking.
For example, in the chart above Basin has an F profile and when you apply his Behavior Index that moves him up to an A profile and he’s ranked in the top four. Farmington Road has an E profile and when you apply his Behavior Index that moves him up to a B profile but that was still not enough to move him up into the top four. The same for Taishan who has a F profile. His Behavior Index moves him up to a B profile but that was not enough to move him into the top four.
Thousand Words has a B profile ranking and his Behavior Index moves him up to an A profile. If he had not stumbled at the start, Thousand Words probably would have finished in the top four.
The Behavior Index shows that some horses with low profile scores, like Farmington Road, Basin and Taishan, can potentially be competitive up to 8½ to 9 furlongs while only a few horses with low scores can be competitive at 10 furlongs. For example, Outwork has a low E profile ranking and he ran on the 2016 Kentucky Derby Trail. His Behavior Index indicated that he could, perhaps, be competitive in the nine-furlong Wood Memorial Stakes (G1), and, indeed, Outwork went on to win the Wood. However, in the Kentucky Derby (G1) his grade ranking had him ranked sixteenth and he finished fourteenth.
The empirical data gathered by the robust power of the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® software easily shows which horses at breeding and auction have the potential to be quality stakes winners or classic champions.
From foal to finish line™, the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® is a proven analytical tool you need for breeding, purchasing horses at auction, and racing equine champions.
Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC can provide prospective clients with a detailed analysis of horses at auction. Or, if you already have a team in place to evaluate the conformation and physicals of horses at auction, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC can provide you with a list of horses with the top Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® and best breeding, like Mr. Big News, to be a successful racehorse.
For a free initial consultation to evaluate how Classic Champion Thoroughbreds can help you maximize your investment dollars when breeding, selling and racing Thoroughbreds, contact us at our website or call us toll free at (844) 346-2223.














Monday, April 6, 2020

Courtlandt Farms’ Sonneman Looks Promising For Kentucky Derby


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Courtlandt Farms’ Sonneman made it two wins in a row Saturday as he came from dead last in a field of eight to win a seven-furlong Allowance Optional Claiming race at Gulfstream Park.
A dark bay or brown colt by Curlin out of Zardanna by Crimson Tide (IRE), Sonneman was profiled by Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC when he was a yearling the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and he has an A+ Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile®.
Unlike other companies that provide automatic computer-generated pedigree analysis of yearlings at auction, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC personally handpicks from the sales catalog all yearlings to be profiled at auction based upon their breeding.

And with the Kentucky Derby postponed until September 5, Sonneman looks like a good candidate to perhaps qualify in new Derby prep races soon to be announced by Churchill Downs.
Currently, there are four horses on the Top Twenty Kentucky Derby Leaderboard that were profiled by Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC at auction: Wells Bayou (Hip 3281), Nadal (Hip 1279), Enforceable (Hip 76) and Excession (Hip 855).
In addition, there are four other horses that have run in Derby prep races but they are looking to make into the top twenty: Azul Coast (Hip 1177), Max Player (Hip 929), Invader (Hip 371) and Scabbard (Hip 802).  
Also, Charlatan was profiled at auction by Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC and, in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 4, he was the 5-1 second co-choice along with Tiz the Law behind the 3-1 Mutuel Field (All others).
Altogether, there are 43 horses profiled by Classic Champion Thoroughbreds at auction that are nominated for the 2020 Triple Crown. Here’s the list:


2020 TRIPLE CROWN RANKING
(Horses Profiled At Auction That Are Nominated To Triple Crown)

                                                     Classic Champion
Thoroughbred Profile®        


1. Awakened (Hip 824)                      A+
2. Boating Party (Hip 186)                A+
3. Mr. Big News (Hip 3)                     A+
4. Idol (Hip 168)                               A+
5. Azul Coast (Hip 1177)                   A+
6. Fame to Famous (Hip 662)           A+

7. Monarch Of Egypt (Hip 554)         A+
8. Invader (Hip 371)                          A+
9. Sonneman (Hip 604)                     A+
10. Bank (Hip 434)                           A+
11. Bonspiel (Hip 598)                      A+
12. Screech (Hip 1374)                     A+
13. Kentucky Summer (Hip 857)      A+
14. Life on Top (Hip 92)                   A+
15. Super John (Hip 1280)               A+

16. Express Train (Hip 1016)            A+       
17. Beachcombing (Hip 1066)           A+
18. Enforceable (Hip 76)                   A
19. Charlatan (Hip 669)                    A
20. Moon Over Miami (Hip 607)        A
21. Max Player (Hip 929)                  A
22. Wells Bayou (Hip 3281)               A
23. Mongol Altai (Hip 2603)              A
24. Airstreem (Hip 135)                    A
25. Next Revolt (Hip 1622)               A
26. Or’effice (Hip 973)                      A
27. Seize the Day (Hip 573)              A
28. Excession (Hip 855)                    A
29. Nadal (Hip 1279)                         A
30. Kingmeister (Hip 1393)               A
31. Chapalu (Hip 7)                           A         
32. Hero d’Oro (Hip 618)                   B

33. Sharecropper (179)                     B
34. Encoder (Hip 1011)                     B
35. Brother Brad (Hip 206)                B
36. Nile River (Hip 3)                        B
37. Forza Di Oro (Hip 215)                B
38. Scabbard (Hip 802)                      C
39. Americanus (Hip 368)                  C
40. Life On the Road (Hip 1775)        C
41. King Ashoka (Hip 180)                D
42. Pellar Tate (Hip 964)                   D
43. Gimme Some Mo (Hip 227)          E



Unlike other companies that provide automatic computer-generated pedigree analysis of yearlings at auction, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC personally handpicks from the sales catalog all yearlings to be profiled at auction based upon their breeding.
The ability to know the potential of a horse before he goes to the breeding shed, sales ring or racetrack is of utmost importance. Since the debut of our software as a sales analysis tool, we now have a total of 55 horses profiled at auction that have won or placed in national and international stakes competition.
From foal to finish line™, the Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® is a proven analytical tool you need for breeding, purchasing horses at auction, and racing equine champions.
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.
Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC can provide prospective clients with a detailed analysis of horses at auction. Or, if you already have a team in place to evaluate the conformation and physicals of horses at auction, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds, LLC can provide you with a list of horses with the top Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® and best breeding, like Sonneman, to be a successful racehorse.
If you are racing Thoroughbreds, Classic Champion Thoroughbreds LLC can help owners and trainers spot their horses in stakes races where they will have the most success by analyzing the profiles of all the horses entered in the race.
For a free initial consultation to evaluate how Classic Champion Thoroughbreds can help you maximize your investment dollars when breeding, selling and racing Thoroughbreds, contact us at our website or call us toll free at (844) 346-2223.