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“My first two imports came from Charlie — Dragonetti and Chicken,” Ward said.
“Then I got Sello Y Firmo and a horse named Colby who ran once and never again.”
One hard-luck apple did not sour Ward’s love affair with the Chilean-bred runners, as both Chicken and Sello Y Firmo are recent and multiple winners in and around Virginia.
Ward has her own opinion of the most important characteristic a shopper should consider when buying foreign thoroughbreds.
“First, you must set and shop within a price range,” she said.
“What I look for from any horse is some amount of form. I like for a horse to have won on the flat already before I buy him.”
The purse money generated by corporate sponsorship in American steeplechasing has hit an all-time high of $4.07 million in 1991. When purses are so lucrative, an owner has very little incentive to sell his young prospect or even his older, proven warrior.
Foreign lands often offer less - expensive, less hard worked, less blemished young runners. It is impossible to pin a specific perfect body type, way of going, or bloodline on the list of recent champions in America.
As trainer Doug Fout
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