Horse of the Year's First Yearlings are Ready to 'Go'

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00:00Next Goat has his first crop of eelings this year and we're just very excited to see

00:13kind of what happens in the summer into the fall.

00:16You know he got off to a great start over at Fasig November, the night of the stars

00:20you know they just like bam bam bam you know three or four six-figure horses right off

00:24the top of the beds.

00:26I think physically his foals fit kind of that mode as far as being early and precocious.

00:30They're medium-sized a little bit bigger than what you might think but they're very square

00:35behind good hips well-balanced horses.

00:38They were purchased by a wide variety of people both end-users and penhookers as well you

00:43know some of the best in the business Peter O'Callaghan, Ben McElroy, Archie St. George.

00:48So definitely some end-users that got involved guys like Calumet Farm, Bill Hollybrook, D.J.

00:53Stables so it's a good combination of both penhookers and end-users.

00:57They're all athletic horses correct good hind ends he's a strong nice horse.

01:04We bought a nice scope out of a mare called Cat Dance who we think is very nice he moves

01:11very well correct strong forward nice horse.

01:15Well as far as homebreds we have two Next Goat babies I actually bought the first weanling

01:20that was for sale off Sequel Bloodstock in the New York sale delighted with her purchase

01:26and then come up in Keeneland January saw another big walk-in colt that we actually

01:32bought in partnership.

01:33I definitely think if you have a mare that maybe doesn't always throw the best front

01:37end or something you may want to consider Next Goat because I can't off the top of my

01:42head and I've looked at dozens of them I can't really think of a of a seeing one that wasn't

01:47correct.

01:48I think when they come up here as yearlings people are going to respect this guy and what

01:52he was as a runner.

01:53Yeah I mean Next Goat was to me I mean he's exactly what you want you know in the race

01:57horse two years you know it's a two year old he broke his maiden first time out of Ellis

02:00Park came back and he won the Breeders Fraternity at Keeneland at grade one you know by five

02:05and a half links and then was a good second in the Breeders Cup juveniles.

02:09To be good enough to win a grade one or two shows he had a lot of talent and then to be

02:13able to carry it on through his career you know it just shows the talent he had and you

02:19know how fast he ran and how you know he was just a brilliant race horse.

02:23It's Next Goat with a wire to wire victory in the 94th running of the grade one Whitney.

02:30So this year Next Goat is going to stand for $15,000.

02:33I completely understand the risks that are involved with you know breeding the horse

02:36and whether it's their second third or fourth year but we've seen it with not this time

02:41you know people that bred in his third and fourth year got rewarded greatly.

02:44I think with Next Goat being the kind of the caliber of horse that he was precocious you

02:49know a very very good two-year-old very fast I think these guys if you're breeding this

02:53year we're going to be selling when his first proper two-year-olds and I think you get just

02:58a tremendous opportunity and chance to hit a home run.

03:01Right now he's really good value for the race horse he is and if you look at all the I mean

03:05the top level stallions right now I mean justified amazing race horse gunrunner amazing race

03:10horse.

03:11He carried his speed he had a great brain he's been well supported I mean now it's up

03:16to him but from what I see so far he's got every shot in the world.

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