Oct. 8, 2009 -
PRLog -- "I make a living from buying undervalued assets in inefficiently priced markets," Ripple said. "This year's yearling market is no different from the stock market." The horse is a dark bay filly by Silver Train out of Greta's Joy, by Joyeux Danseur. Silver Train won six races, including two Grade 1 stakes, and more than $1.2 million. He made 17 starts in three years on the racetrack, showing soundness and durability. He was a sprinter-miler, won both the Breeders' Cup Sprint and the Metropolitan Mile, and won or placed in seven stakes races. Greta's Joy, is by Joyeux Danseur, out of Trust Greta. Greta's Joy is a four-time winner; her only foal has not raced. She is a half-sister to millionaire Surf Cat and to stake-winner Rosie O'Greta, who is also the dam of two other stakes horses. Farther back in her pedigree, you'll find stakes winner Hay Patcher, the dam of major sire and earner of $2 million-plus Broad Brush. The Silver Train-Greta's Joy cross is almost entirely free of inbreeding in the early generations;
only Northern Dancer appears on the top and bottom, and he's 5x4. "We were quite pleased to get the horse for what we did," said Annie O'Dwyer, Ripple's partner. "Now it's time to start thinking about names!"
The purchase was made through a syndicate controlled by That's Amore Stables.
