Diligent Gambler
As a partner in Castle Village Farm, you’ll be part of an affordable, professional racing group. You’ll experience all the thrills of racing and the fun of being at the track for a fraction of what it would cost to do it on your own. It’s like owning your own sports franchise, but you don’t have to be a millionaire!
Right now, we’ve just claimed our first horse for the 2011 Saratoga Claiming Partnership. Shares are still available, though, until our horse runs back in our colors for the first time.
New Claiming Partnership
We’ve just opened a new claiming partnership, and there’s room in it for you!
Bishop of Nola
Our 2011 Saratoga Claiming Partnership is the fifth claiming partnership we’ve started in the year or so since we chose Bruce Brown as our trainer. The first partnership is already a multiple winner. We claimed Good Law for that partnership, and he had a win and a second-place finish for our partners in two starts before he was claimed away. That left the partners with money in the bank to claim a new horse — Bishop of Nola — who promptly won his first start for Castle Village Farm, an allowance race at Saratoga, and then added another win in June, 2011. So far, the partners have received more than half their original capital back.
Last year’s second partnership claimed Metrology at Belmont in September, and he’s already made money for the partners. He finished a fast-closing third for us in his first start in our colors and then was second next time out. Then, after a winter layup, Metrology returned on June 30, 2011 and won in a thrilling stretch drive. He was claimed out of that race. Our next horse, Rigby, moved up to a $47,000 allowance in his first start after we claimed him for $25,000 and finished a fast-closing third. Then in his next race, on March 25th, Rigby joined the ranks of CVF claims who’ve won for us, taking a $42,000 starter allowance. He won again, off a layoff, on October 13th, 2011. Our fourth claiming partnership is just underway, claiming In Just We Trust on June 16th, 2001. So far, our claiming horses with Bruce have finished in the money more than 80% of the time.
Our newest claiming partnership just got its first horse on October 19th, claiming three-year-old Expecting Cash at Belmont for $35,000. He’s a deep-closing sprinter, and we think he’ll make an impact over the winter.
Bruce Brown (r) with Steve Zorn
Our horses are trained by Bruce Brown. Bruce got his start as an assistant trainer to Tim Hills and then to Bill Mott. Bruce has been doing very well since he went out on his own two years ago, with a 20%-plus win percentage in 2008 and over 15% in 2009 and 2010. So far in 2011, he’s back above the 20% mark overall, and doing even better for Castle Village Farm. Bruce welcomes CVF partners to his barn to watch morning workouts.
Fighting Speedy Wins
We spend a lot of time looking for the right horse to claim We always look for a horse that shows it wants to win every time it races. We also look for a horse that has a variety of racing options available.
Diligent Gambler Wins
Beginning with our very first claim in 1999 — Flippy Diane, who won the $100,000 Maryland Million Distaff Stakes for us — we’ve enjoyed great success with claiming horses. Some of our other claims who also went on to be stakes runners for us include Diligent Gambler, Southern Missile, Fighting Speedy, No Bad Habits and Carolina Fuego. Of course, we can’t guarantee that all our claims will be stakes horses. But we have an excellent track record.
To find out more about the new claiming partnership, click on the Business Plan and Partnership Agreement buttons. And to join the partnership, just click on the Contact Us button.
We’re looking forward to having you join us in the winners circle!
