Rachel Harrison Life Hack

[Sounds include: faint wind, a horse neighs one time.]

Speaker 1: It’s okay, it’s okay.

[Sounds include: people speaking faintly]

Speaker 2: Looks like him.

Speaker 3: I think it is, yeah.

Speaker 4: He has to sell the horse. 

Speaker 5: I said I would have bought the– 

Speaker 6: Watch your back! Horse coming in! Heads up! 

[Sounds include: Murmur of crowd increases in volume. A horse whinnies.]

Speaker 7: Oh, yeah yeah! 

Announcer: Please read the conditions of sale. They state [indistinguishable] third limitation of warranties. There is no warranties, expressed or implied by auctioneer, or the consigner or by representatives as to the racing soundness, questionability or fitness of any particular purpose for any particular horse in this sale.

All horses are sold as is, with all existing conditions and defects, exemptions provided in conditions fourth, fifth and sixth. Condition four, the limited warranties as to the description; condition fifth, related to warranties as to soundness. You should also make yourself aware of condition thirteen, providing for term, and condition fourteen, how we resolve any post-sale disputes. Please read the conditions of sale, they are there for your protection. 

Please also listen carefully to announcements from the auction staff. [Indistinguishable] information before you. Please listen carefully to announcements from the auction staff. 

If you are successful bidding this evening, you will be presented an acknowledgement of purchase, on which is noted the hip number and the amount of your bid. When you satisfy yourself with those two items that the information is correct, please sign it after the purchase. When you do so, you are agreeing to the conditions of sale, whether or not you have read them. So it is in your interest to read those conditions of sale. I’ll give you a few moments to get settled, and then we’ll be underway. 

Announcer: We start the sale this evening with hip number 145, consigned by Gainsway’s agent. One Smart Deputy, [indistinguishable], by Black Tie Affair. Very, very tightly curled ears, but there’s still some [indistinguishable] to them. Beautifully-made animal, great deal of quality and balance. He is by the sire of the current stage winner one of the top three roans of this year. He is out of Corporal Spy, second in the grade-one test stage, right here at Saratoga. 

This is the first foal in the States to place one up on over $190,000. She is out of the [indistinguishable] stakes-producing mare. Here’s one on the side, with $34 million. Seven champions amongst her[indistinguishable], and we have one in the ring right here. 

Auctioneer: Alright, a beautiful roan. [Indistinguishable] 50, 50, 50 out of the bat. 230, 240. 40, 50. [indistinguishable] 50, 60. 60, 60, 70, 70, 80. We’ve got 270 now, can I see 280? [indistinguishable] $280,000 [indistinguishable]. 

Announcer: Still a lot of people getting settled here, Walt. We don’t want them to miss out on this lovely colt. He’s 

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Auctioneer: Bill, $275,000. 

Announcer: We have a late out. Please if you would scratch 164 from your catalog. 

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Seattle Smooth’s a roan. He of course is the sire of seven champions, including [indistinguishable]. He is also the sire of the first champion Vindication, who came out of this very ring two years ago. He has a Seattle smooth coat, he’s a hot-blooded bull, a stakes winner. Out in the wing there, a full stakes producer, Seattle Smooth, folks, one of the top stallions in the world today.

Auctioneer: Alright, [indistinguishable] 200, 200 now, 250. [Indistinguishable] 500, 525, let’s go. 525, 550, 550, 550, 575, and $575,000, [indistinguishable], let’s go. 555, 75… $550,000. 

Announcer: 148 now, [indistinguishable] sales agency, chestnut foal, [indistinguishable], two haunches on this one, [indistinguishable], athletic right here, [indistinguishable], sire of Kensington, [indistinguishable] champion of [indistinguishable] stakes, right here, [indistinguishable] over $30 million.

Auctioneer: 140, 150. [Indistinguishable] Lets go, 140, 150. Let’s go 140, 150 [indistinguishable] right quick. Down the stairs, down the back. 140, 150, winning with 50. Jiminy, 140. 

Announcer: [Indistinguishable] Too Late Now, a grade-one stakes winner, now with earnings of over $560,000. She’s a half-sister to two stakes runners, one—excuse me, one stakes runner, two winners, [indistinguishable] Too Late Now.

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] 325. 325. 325 [Indistinguishable] 

Announcer: Next on the stage is [indistinguishable] over $12,500,000, [indistinguishable]. This has just happened today. A full daughter to No Such Thing. And while we’re talking about that, [indistinguishable] earnings now at total of $578,000. Two more stakes places, [indistinguishable] she was third in her grade to [indistinguishable], she was second in her grade to [indistinguishable] She is the full daughter to one of the best runners in the grade-one stakes race, No Such Thing. 

Auctioneer: Alright, [Indistinguishable] No Such Thing. [Indistinguishable]100, 100, 150, 200, 325, 350, 350, 350. 325, 350, 350. 325. 335, 350. 335, 350. 335, 335, 350. 335, 335, 350. 

Announcer: [Indistinguishable] one fine foal she is. 

Auctioneer: 335, 335, 350. Let’s go, 335, $350,000. 335, 350. What do you say

Announcer: [Indistinguishable] Bruce, $335,000, Bruce. 

155, consigned by Gainsway sales agency, chestnut colt, by [indistinguishable] ridge. Once again, here a colt by [indistinguishable] $18.4 billion, including [indistinguishable]. 

There are very few jewels in the crown these days, guys, but I’ll tell you what, when you look at this one in the ring right now, and look at the pedigree that goes with it, this has to be considered one of the great jewels in the crown, [indistinguishable] Tailor Made sales agency, his name is Seventy-Seventh Street. Not bad. [indistinguishable] race horse. [Indistinguishable]. She is the dam of three foals at least, all three of which are winners. [Indistinguishable].

And of course Stone Cap continues to maintain his stranglehold on being the lead stallion in the world. He is the sire of over $55 million. He has got two European [indistinguishable] worth [indistinguishable] Euros, [indistinguishable].

Auctioneer: Alright, Stone Cap [indistinguishable]. Can I have $200,000, [indistinguishable], 200, 300, 400, [indistinguishable] 800, 800, [indistinguishable]. 950, 950, 950, 950 [indistinguishable]. 850, 850, that’s 850. 800. 1,000,001, 1,000,001, 1,000,001, 1,000,001. 1,150,000, 1,200,000. 1,200,000. 1,250,000. [Indistinguishable]. 1,200,000. 1,250,000? 250? 250? That’ll be 1,200,000. Very, very nice. 

Announcer: $1,250,000 for [indistinguishable]. 

Auctioneer: 450, 460 anywhere. [Indistinguishable] 460, 460 anyone. That’s $460,000. 460, 460, 460. Bill ordered at $450,000. 

Announcer: 166 from Tailor Made sales agency is a [indistinguishable].

Auctioneer:  280, 290. 280, 290. 290, 290, 300. [indistinguishable] 300,000.

Announcer: It’ll cost you almost as much to breed the horse as we’ve got on the board. Let’s go!

Auctioneer: 290, 300 anywhere. 290, 300 now. 300, 000, [indistinguishable] 300 now. We’re at 290, can I get 300 anywhere. [indistinguishable] 290, 300, 290, 300, 290, 300 anyone? Billed, $290,000.

Announcer: 168 from High Class Sales, whose agent is the chestnut filly by Forester. This one out of Connecting Link by linkage. This one that is a half-sister to Lake River, a grade-one stakes winner right here at Saratoga, winner of the grade-one John A. Morris handicap. Forestry is selling Stone Cap, you know that [indistinguishable] can get you a high-class filly, Forestry the sire of Hassle Free in his first run. This filly a half-sister to a grade-one winner. It is a family that is absolutely packed with current stakes runners. Look all the way down that pedigree and then go down to the third gap, one of the best families in the stud book, the family here have made a partner. A very attractive filly here, as pretty as they get, a daughter of Forestry, half-sister to a grade-one stakes winner.

Auctioneer: [indistinguishable] 125, 135. 125, can I get 135 here. 125, 135, 135, 125, [indistinguishable] outbid. [Indistinguishable] 220, 220, 230. 220, 230, 230. 230, 40, 40, 50, 240, 250. [Indistinguishable] 255, 255 here. 55, 55, [indistinguishable] how ’bout it?

Announcer: This stallion here, he is by the sire of the current stakes [indistinguishable] this year. He is out of [indistinguishable], the mare is a stakes winner, and grade-one stakes performer, [indistinguishable] $320,000. [Indistinguishable] good-running mare by [indistinguishable]. 

Auctioneer: 100, can I get 100, now 150, 100, 150, [indistinguishable]—

Announcer: —is song and dance, [indistinguishable] song and dance [indistinguishable] [cut in tape] a wonderful race mare, and a generous gal.

Auctioneer: Alright, good looking and plenty of [indistinguishable] 150, 150, [indistinguishable], it’s 100 now, can I get 125? [Indistinguishable] 500 now, 525. 500, 525 [indistinguishable] 500, 525. 

Announcer: You know the pedigree, and that might whisper a little encouragement in your ears right now. I hope. 

Auctioneer: 510. 525. 525. 535. 525. 535 [indistinguishable] 550, 575, 550 now, can I get 575, 550 now, can I get 575, 550, can I get 575? Can I get 560? 560. 560. 560. And 550, 560. And $550,000 [indistinguishable] can I get 560? Tommy, $550,000.

Announcer: Hip number 182, please make your way towards the [indistinguishable]. 

Auctioneer: 125, 125, how ‘bout it, here we go. 120, 125, can I get 125, yes or no? 120! $120,000. 

Announcer: Hip number 183, please make your way towards the floor, hip number 183. 

Auctioneer: Chestnut filly by Coronado’s Quest, this one out of yesterday’s [indistinguishable]. Coronado’s Quest one the Travers stakes right here at Saratoga— 

Auctioneer: 60, 70. [indistinguishable] 70, 80 [indistinguishable] $90,000 now, can I get $100,000? [indistinguishable] Can I get $100,000? 90,000 now, can I get $100,000? 90,000, can I get 95,000? Let’s go! [indistinguishable] And 105, and $100,000 [indistinguishable].

[Sounds include: Murmur of crowd, the microphone comes in contact with fabric one time.]

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable]  

Announcer: Hip number 189— 

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] 300, 325, [indistinguishable] 300 now, can I get 325, and 320, 320. And 300 now, can I get 20? 30? 330 now, [indistinguishable] 30, 40, 50. 340, 50, $300,000. [Indistinguishable] 40, 50? $340,000, can I get 50, 50, 50? [indistinguishable]

Speaker 8: $2.17? Thank you. 

Speaker 8: Thank you. Gary? 

Speaker 9: Uh yeah, can I get a hot dog with mustard please? 

Speaker 8: Who’s next? 

Speaker 10: A bottled water? 

Speaker 8: A bottle of water? 

Speaker 11: There’s mustard right there. 

Speaker 8: That’s $6.50. You’re welcome. Hi, how can I help you? 

Speaker 9: Thanks. Thank you. 

Announcer: [indistinguishable] there’s Chestnut Street, a two-year-old foal, top-running horse by Deputy Minister. On top of that, this one [indistinguishable] That mare won sweepstakes for over $430,000, [indistinguishable] all the way through her career. He is the [indistinguishable].

Auctioneer: 300, 350. $300,000, can I get 350? 350 now, can I get 400? [indistinguishable] 450. 500, 550, it’s 500 now, can I get 550, 550? 120, 120 now, can I get 130? 130, 130 now, [00:31:30] 140, 150, 140, 140 here, $140,000 here, can I get $150,000? I have $140,000, can I get 150 anywhere? $140,000.

Speaker 12: Well hello! Good to see you! I missed you!

Auctioneer: $550,000. [indistinguishable] 580, 580. 555, 580. 600. 600. 580. Or 590. 580, 590. 

Announcer: [indistinguishable] 

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] $100,000. 140, $150,000. 140, 150 anywhere, [indistinguishable]. 45, 50. [indistinguishable] Forty thou, fifty thousand dollars! [indistinguishable]. 45, 50, 45,000 now, can I get 50? [Indistinguishable].

Announcer: 215 now, consigned by [indistinguishable]. 

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] 40, 50. [Indistinguishable] 40, 50 [indistinguishable] $150,000. 

Announcer: He’s the half-brother now to Burn Dixie Burn, who has become a winner since the [indistinguishable] broke away by nearly five lengths. Just take a look at the colt in the ring, strike tracking like a real racehorse, beautiful colt by Grand Slam. 

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] 50, 50, now 100, 100, 150, two! [indistinguishable] 250, now three. [Indistinguishable] 350, 350, 350 now. [indistinguishable] 320 now. [Indistinguishable] 350, 400, 450...450, 475? 500,000? And 500 now, can I get 550, 500 now, can I get 550? 550. No? I’ve got 550 here, 575, 600,000. That is $600,000, [indistinguishable] 600 now, and [indistinguishable], all in at 575. 

Announcer: Now, I have 550 in here, Bill. I took the 550 in here. 

Auctioneer: You have to be beat 575. [Indistinguishable] I have 550 up here. 575. 575. 575. 575. And 550, 575. $575,000, [indistinguishable] 550. 550, 560. [Indistinguishable] 550 now. And 550, 560 [indistinguishable] 550, 560 anyone? Approved, $550,000, $550,000 approved. 

Announcer: 215 now, consigned by Eden Sales [indistinguishable]. This one out of Hidden Stone by [indistinguishable] minus the prospector. Outstanding pedigree here, another exciting prospect, [indistinguishable], Kentucky Derby winner, brought in almost $2 million, from the last run [indistinguishable] this year. First one was [indistinguishable] grade-one stakes winner, from the family here, a prospector’s delight. Go down the page, you will find Mineshaft there, one of the most consistent race horses in training right now.  

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] 950, 950, 960, 970 now, 980, can I get 980, now I’m at 100, 110, 120, 120, 130, 140, 150, 150, 150, 150, 180. Now 150, 180, 180, 180 down here. Now 180, 190, 200, [indistinguishable] 200. [indistinguishable] 220, 230, 230 now 240, [indistinguishable] Now I have 240, 250, 250, 240 250, [indistinguishable], 270, 280 where are you, 270, 280. Found $270,000. 

Announcer: 216 from [indistinguishable] two-year-olds of this year, [indistinguishable] stakes-performing two-year-old on his very first run. Take a look here, look at the high heel, grade-one stakes place two-year-old, grade-one stakes place three-year-old, [indistinguishable] over $230,000. Also on the stage, [indistinguishable] applicable two-year-olds, [indistinguishable].

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] 30, 40, 40, 50! 45, 50, [indistinguishable], 55, 55. 60 now. [indistinguishable] Frank, $95,000. 

Announcer: And our final offering of the 2003 Saratoga sales and a great way to wind it up, from Tailor Made sales agency is Agent. He is the chestnut daughter of Forest Wildcat, this one out of [indistinguishable] by Hold Your Piece. Pennsylvania-bred, but the most important thing is, this is the half-sister to Peach Rules, one of the better three-year-olds of this year, winner of the Toyota Bluegrass stakes and the Louisiana Derby. He won the Hassel Invitational in [indistinguishable], and now has startings of $1.8 million. [Indistinguishable] current stakes winner, Forest Wildcat filly, half-sister to Beach Rules. 

Auctioneer: [Indistinguishable] 30, 40, we have 30, 40,000. $40,000, 50 now, 50 now 60 now, 60 now, 60,000 [indistinguishable]. No! 80! 90! 100! 90 to 100 [Indistinguishable] 100,000, a hundred grand, now [indistinguishable]. 105. 110. 110. 15. 115 now [indistinguishable] 110 can I get 115? Now [indistinguishable]. 

Announcer: You’re at 120. Yes, you’re at 120. 

Auctioneer: 120, 120, can I get 125? [Indistinguishable]

Announcer: She had said 120,000 before he ever bid. 

Auctioneer: 120, 125, now [indistinguishable] 120 going 125...$125,000, Frank.

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, that should close the sale here this evening. We wish you luck with your purchases. If you would like to sell [indistinguishable] right to remove your horses from the sales [indistinguishable]. Don’t forget that we have astounding access to [indistinguishable] right here tomorrow after racing. Thoroughbreds will start shipping in over the weekend. That will be available for inspection at the sale on Sunday and on Monday evening. Good luck with your purchases, have a safe journey home tonight, and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow night and over the weekend. 

[Sounds include: Murmur of crowd, indistinguishable conversation, the swishing movement of the video camera.]

Speaker 1: Says, I don’t need a millionaire, I don’t need no tax break for. What I need a tax break for? I’m a millionaire! Okay? What am I gonna do with all this money, if you get my point? More money, that you can’t spend before you drop dead? If this comes to the point where it becomes obscene! What can you do with it? Just to hoard it? 

They have this thing on A&E, you know, where you see hoarders, people who pile their house up with garbage? It’s the same thing. Hoarding money. It’s the same thing. What? Just to say you have it? You know? What are you gonna do with it? I don’t understand, you know? To make more money, you know? Even just to invest it, here in America, to make jobs for other Americans. You get my point. You can make more money. If you keep reinvesting it, okay? And the more money you make, the more money you reinvest to provide jobs. I don’t get it. I don’t get it. And it just seems like they don’t want to do it. They just want to sit around and hoard it, or go down to Mexico and pay somebody five dollars a day. You know? I just don’t get it. 

And then they go blaming Obama, you know? He inherited this mess. And they say, and then, the hypocrisy of, you know, what can you fix without money? You can’t fix anything without money. Without spending money. What can you fix without spending money? Absolutely nothing, on this planet. Okay? 

Anything that has to be fixed on this planet requires spending money, okay? But they’re just trying to make you look bad. And it just gets me, you know what I’m saying, that so many people still don’t get it. They don’t get it. The hypocrisy. 

And then, like I was saying, the greed, and then religious. “Oh yeah, my god,” “No, it’s my god.” You know, you don’t have to believe in God, but if you do, it’s one god. That’s if you believe in God. That’s what I tell them. It’s Jews and Christians. One God. If you believe in God. 

And that God wouldn’t want you fighting each other over religion. But people are doing it. They’re still fighting over God. Thousands of years on this planet, they’re still fighting over that same piece of dirt in the Middle East. You know, from David and Goliath, right? We still ain’t got it right. 

Are you from New York?

That has been a problem, okay? And it’s the greed, okay, that’s creating it. Okay? Because even, you know, back in the Bush, you know, “Oh, global warming, it ain’t real, we’re not going to—” you know…and we’re not part of the agreement that they made, with the United Nations or whatever? For reducing the gasses, right? We’re not a part of it, okay? Refused to be a part of it? Why? Like I’m saying, it goes back to greed! “Oh, it’s going to cost money to do this and that,” you know? 

I mean, and then like I was saying, that’s all we need. Because, like, China, that’s the scary part. Because that’s one quarter of the world’s population over there, okay? And they all park their bicycles now. They’re all in cars! Okay? That’s only gonna add to it! To what’s going on. You know, they act like, “Oh, no, it’s not real,” It’s like you said. You can already see the changes in the weather conditions, okay? You know, we had a tornado up in here, right? We ain’t never had one, til this–

Yet somehow that’s going to hurt them. Okay? They’ve got people convinced like that. And you know, you hear them. The old cliché, you know, taxes, spending, right? But who spends more than them? Okay? Who spends more than them? 

I mean, it was Reagan who started the country down the debt slope, okay? Between him and Papa Bush, okay? Reagan sunk the country into more debt than all the presidents combined before him, okay? All the presidents combined before him, okay? And then, by the time Clinton got up in there, right, then—see, people have a short memory, right? Remember “nuke them, boys”? Shut down the country. Because of the debt! Because he said, “Read my lips, no new taxes.” But as soon as he got up in there and realized how bad the national debt was, he realized we have to do something about this, right?

But him, that’s when the economy tanked, okay? And then when Clinton got up in there, right, that’s when “Nuke them boys,” and then demanding the balanced budget, shut down the country, remember that? We’ll show them. Standing in front of the mic, we’re doing it yesterday. And Clinton was like, “Well wait a minute, I inherited this from Reagan and Papa Bush, give me a—” “No, no, we want a balanced budget. We want it yesterday.” Okay? 

Then he balanced the budget to the point where we were paying down the deficit, right, to the point where we had a surplus, right? As soon as Bush took the Oval Office, right, what did he say? Surplus, surplus, tax breaks, tax breaks. Right? So now, the whole eight years that he was up in there, you know, with the tax breaks, they were constantly cranking up the deficit again, to the point where we are now. And now somehow it’s all Obama’s fault, and he had to straighten everything out and make jobs and do everything. You know? 

I just, you know, like I said, you get what you pay for. People still don’t get it. You know? They still don’t get it. And unfortunately, it looks like the Republicans are going to—they already got Congress. 

No, I mean, it matter to the point where, if they get to the White House, it’s case closed. And I’m just saying, they know how to close ranks, okay? Trust me. That’s the problem that happened with the Democrats. They don’t know how to close ranks. Because I tell people, you know, I mean, we don’t have a dictatorship, okay? If we had a dictatorship, then you can blame George W. Bush, okay? Being that we don’t have a dictatorship yet, the Democrats have to take their share of the blame for not holding their feet to the fire like they’re doing to Obama, okay? 

No! But I’m saying that, you know, basically the problem is that, like I say, the Democrats don’t know how to close ranks. They don’t. Yeah. 

I mean, you know, I don’t know man, you know, I don’t know what to say. A street fight is a street fight, okay? There’s rules in a street fight. 

What you do? You have to cross the Hudson to be in a ‘burb. And they don’t think like us. And see, what the Republicans have done, and to their credit, was they hit – because people go to church, you know, right?  They call the Bible Belt, right? And you can see where their power base is, right? It’s like an L, right down the middle of the country and straight across the south. And like I say, basically they got those people – you know, once you got the preacher in your pocket, right, and Jerry Falwell—