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pcmark15 on September 18, 2026, 7:23 AM
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pcmark15 on September 17, 2026, 6:19 AM
I'm not planning on doing much with yearlings this year since I'll be carrying eight 2 year olds over to next year. But I am interested in one of the homebreds and one horse in Friday's sale caught my eye. I sometimes have the habit of getting in on horses for all the wrong reasons and this could be one of them. I sure most of you know the story of Cloud Rider last year, I had some shares of him and absolutely loved his name. So when I was going through the catalogue and saw the name Cloud Dancing (hip 181) how could I not be interested. She's a Rockyroad Hanover with a very nice pedigree. Some may shy away from her for being by a first crop sire, she's also later in the sale so maybe she could be had at a good price. Even if she doesn't land with The Stable (which I doubt) I'll be looking to see if I can get involved with her.
I will post a picture of Cloud Dancing today, once I can figure out what my I Pad is doing. My notes include a splint outside of right rear and offset in right front knee with a big ? mark, because I don’t trust my eyes with a lot of conformation.
Thanks for the observations, after reading your post I went back and looked at her video again. It would be hard to draw any conclusions based on screenshots from a video and I would certainly trust your first hand viewing over the screenshots, the splint isn't a deal breaker but the offset could be. At this point I guess all I can do is wait things out, who buys her and how much they pay may tell me if I should pursue her or not.
Thanks again for the insight.
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Bgtolex25 on September 17, 2026, 5:16 PM
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pcmark15 on September 17, 2026, 6:19 AM
I'm not planning on doing much with yearlings this year since I'll be carrying eight 2 year olds over to next year. But I am interested in one of the homebreds and one horse in Friday's sale caught my eye. I sometimes have the habit of getting in on horses for all the wrong reasons and this could be one of them. I sure most of you know the story of Cloud Rider last year, I had some shares of him and absolutely loved his name. So when I was going through the catalogue and saw the name Cloud Dancing (hip 181) how could I not be interested. She's a Rockyroad Hanover with a very nice pedigree. Some may shy away from her for being by a first crop sire, she's also later in the sale so maybe she could be had at a good price. Even if she doesn't land with The Stable (which I doubt) I'll be looking to see if I can get involved with her.
I will post a picture of Cloud Dancing today, once I can figure out what my I Pad is doing. My notes include a splint outside of right rear and offset in right front knee with a big ? mark, because I don’t trust my eyes with a lot of conformation.
Thanks for the observations, after reading your post I went back and looked at her video again. It would be hard to draw any conclusions based on screenshots from a video and I would certainly trust your first hand viewing over the screenshots, the splint isn't a deal breaker but the offset could be. At this point I guess all I can do is wait things out, who buys her and how much they pay may tell me if I should pursue her or not.
Thanks again for the insight.
