Aside from operations like Ocala Stud where it's baked into their strategy, seeing a homebred on offer at a 2-year-old sale is quite uncommon. Carrying a horse along for that length of time in the hopes that they'll end up being an appealing lot for an ever-more scrutinizing juvenile market is a risk most breeders don't want to take unless they have to.
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale is set to kick off Monday, and it has a distinctly Maryland flavor: more than 200 hips were bred in Maryland.
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Destined for stardom: Little did anyone know at the time, but young Cash (left) and Steve Asmussen had such big futures
When I was younger, working in the racing industry in Europe, the name Asmussen meant only one thing: Cash.
He was a superstar there for two decades, every bit as successful in France at that time as his compatriot Steve Cauthen was in Britain. Five times Cash was France’s champion jockey. He was an Arc winner, he won four French Derbys and every French Classic at least once, and more than 70 G1s worldwide. If there had been a TRC Global Rankings back then, he would have been a regular in the higher reaches of the world top ten.