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He said, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. 421, the colt had promise and drew some attention, but he faced stiff competition in the ultra-fashionable Book 1.“King Guillermo was quite popular,” Campion recalled, “even though he was a bit immature and a cribber at the 2018 Keeneland September Sale. And it was a public street.

I’ve seen it.

Fellow Venezuelan expat Juan Carlos Avila, a top trainer in their homeland, had set up shop stateside, and the two teamed up in search of prospects at OBS. If someone parked in front of his house, there might be a colorful word or two coming out of him.

The thrill of the hunt is pretty exciting.”Cauthen had already inspected King Guillermo before he’d gone through the ring.“She had seen him a few times and I knew she liked him,” Campion recalled.“King Guillermo was a ‘yes’ when I looked at the page,” Cauthen said. Recio himself came in for a share of the colt along with Cauthen and Johnson.“That personality carried through during the breaking process,” Cauthen said. At first, Erik King wasn’t sure he liked being a meme.
The guy was really driven. Bidding stalled at $90,000 – not enough to meet the reserve price set by the seller.But buyers and sellers often reach agreements privately in the aftermath, and that’s how King Guillermo was picked up by Katie Cauthen. King Guillermo’s sire, champion Uncle Mo, is himself a high-profile stallion at Ashford.

“French fries, motherf*cker,” all of that. One of the producers very kindly called me, which doesn’t always happen.

I had to bring my A-game. Galbreath had two homebreds take the Run for the Roses, Chateaugay (1963) and Proud Clarion (1967), followed by Roberto (1972) at Epsom.

My father was in federal law enforcement and I have a lot of family and friends who are cops, so I knew a lot of them.There’s a lot of him in Doakes.

“You know, this guy is you.” It’s exaggerated, but he didn’t suffer fools.

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Another private deal would be struck afterward, this time with a professional athlete from another sport.

Even though I wanted the character to hang around longer, I totally understood the choice.Not with me. The juvenile was ready for his next appearance at the OBS April Sale, where he was consigned by Gene on behalf of the family’s partnership. Michael is taller than me, you know. Although unplaced in her only two starts, Slow Sand had a fine pedigree as a daughter of Dixieland Band and the stakes-winning Seattle Slew mare Slow Down. Her father, Bill Recio, is the impresario of Lynwood Stable in Florida where such champions as Honor Code and Songbird received their early education. It would be an incredible feat if they bred the winner of the Kentucky Derby as well.”Indeed, King and O’Loughlin, who both have roles at Coolmore’s Irish headquarters, would join an exclusive club of breeders of Epsom and Kentucky Derby winners. They were able to buy the Uncle Mo colt for $150,000, and now he became part of the Martinez family. Martinez, who’d retired from his 16-year MLB career after the 2018 season, was just buying his first racehorses.

Dermot Ryan, manager of Ashford, commented on that Epsom connection. In 2016, the year King Guillermo was conceived, Uncle Mo was already off to a fantastic start at stud. True Baker, King Guillermo was purchased.

Tales from the Crib: King Guillermo at the Kentucky Derby.

And you see where it got him.