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Non-Tech : Buying and selling Thoroughbred Race Horses
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To: Seth L. who wrote (13)6/5/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: Richard H. Villwock  Read Replies (1) of 17
 
when I was in the standardbred business, my son & I started out just racing. the first 2 yrs we made money, bot a small farm, afew mares & tried to breed our own.bad idea. had a great first trainer but he turned out to be a big gambler.borrowed $ went to Vegas to try & get even . lost & never came back. another great trainer drank himself out of the business and the other good one we had died. after going thru some bad trainers we sold them all and went into the thorobred business for racing at Arlington Park in Chicago. Shane Sellers got us our 1st winner but our trainer turned 20 & 50 claimers into 5k claimers.that was it for me.never went into pinhooking as i didn't trust anyone to buy a horse for me and you really need a bloodstock agent to pick out a horse for you and to get their commission, they'll pick out anything.one fellow i know invested 210k.1 horse he paid 45k, sold it for 13k. another broke down in training. the other 2 he kept. 1 won a 50mc and won his 2nd & hasn't won since. the other hasn't won yet.my friend races his horses at Gulfstream in the winter.[ Great track]spent many a day there years ago. I'll help you anyway I can.anyone who loves racing can't be all bad.
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