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This colt is a horse who comes from an excellent European pedigree and is from a Anabaa mare who has proven to date to be a exceptional broodmare sire

To be fair on the photo the horse is very much a athletic type who has a huge walk and overstep of at least 20cm and whilst he is immature we think put away and given a few months to develop we will have a stunning individual.

Our budget for this horse was $60,000 to $70,000 and we where thrilled to secure him for $30,000

Why We Brought Him

1. CONFIRMATION. This Category is fairly self explanatory. We are looking more so for horses who have issues or deficiencies in their confirmation that will hinder the horse in its career. Ask any single trainer who has had Group horses and to a man they will all tell you their best horses have never been perfect in confirmation and in fact most perfectly conformed horses are the slowest. What we look for here is issues we cant live with or issues that will affect the horse at a later stage in life. Some traits are very manageable and other traits you cannot ignore and means the horses will never race.

In this instance look at this colt and notice

You will notice the strength in the forearm. The forearm is one area on a horse that will note grow or develop muscle and it’s a very important lever in determining a horses strength and helps provide strength for speed

Notice the very defined but small cannons and the short pasterns- another indicator that speed is what this horse is bred for

What really got me though was the horses rear end and Hip and the strength he has behind is excellent

Notice also the deep girth ( for a big set up lungs and heart) and then finally the good length and angular of the barrel but also the shoulder

On Confirmation Score he rated a Pass with no obvious or concerning Traits. In fact he was one of the best walking colts in the sale

2. BIOMECHANICS

One factor we haven’t highlighted is we employ a unique “biomechanical” system and check list that is very similar to what is used by the professional baseball and basketball scouts in the US. What this system tells us is that without the correct confirmation and ‘leavers” its not physically possible for athletes to perform at an optimum level unless you first have the right tools and physical make up. For example statistically its just about impossible for a 5ft white man with extra short arms to play professional Basketball in the US. Not to say that 5ft players are not good or cant make the league its just statistically they don’t perform at the level coaches require. Using this system we attempt to weed out the horses who don’t psychically move in a way that best utilises there limbs and body.The freak 1 in 1 million horse we are not looking for.We want the horses that give us the best chance in all areas

Once we identify this we then look at the horses and how they use their body’s and tools. For example we all know that a horse gets most of his propulsion from his rear end and as part of the process we run each breeze up under a system we analyse for example the horses Hip movements and angulation and exactly where the horses are pushing from. For example you don’t want a race horse who is pushing off from behind himself as he loses a lot of his power and you want to see them push off from underneath their own body where they have the most benefit from their hips and power. For example it stands to reason two different horses with the same stride length ,style and turnover rate are not going to run exactly the same time- but the horse that best utilises its body in propelling itself should always finish in front.

We use this system extensively when buying our European horses and we find it weeds out a lot of horses that to the eye are impressive but don’t have the stats or data behind them to perform up to our expectations. Of course this system is not fool proof as nothing has been developed to test a horses will or heart and determination- however it’s a system that helps us avoid a lot of slow horses and helps backup what the eye might detect or miss

On This system this colt rated 54 !!. This is in the top 12% of horses

3. PEDIGREE. We have already touched on the pedigree and performance of Nicconi ay. What also is worth pointing out is that Science has proven that once you look beyond the Dam and the second dam that the DNA has degraded to such a extent its statistically useless and anyone who tries to tell you different is not worth listening to.

As a result we use a number of different pedigree approaches and this colt scored a 16 out of 20 on pedigree whilst is a excellent mark.

We expect him to run and with training fees just at $5 per day everyone can afford him.

Overall he is as good a horse as you would hope to see and with all the boxes being ticked we think he has every chance to succeed.

He will also be eligible to be paid up for BOBS and the Golden Slipper

. Back Up Plan

Basically being a colt or gelding we have the option when he has fully matured to assess him and if Kris Lees determines that he is not going to make Saturday racing we can on sell him . Having paid very little this with even luck all but assures us we can exit the horse for a decent profit either by racing to sell or racing to trial and then selling to Asia. Moderate horses are bringing $60-100k if they trial ok

BREAKERS REPORT 2nd APRIL
The big nicconi colt for a big horse has exceptional power and stride length and whilst he will need more time than some of the others – he feels like a real intelligent horse who is very nimble and light on his feet- he will definitely run for you and he said going on the breaking process he was one of the better horses ive broken in recently. He just feels like a proper horse “