And that live feed lets you see an overall picture of the horse, but there is no way you can tell me you can see really important features like over the knee, toed in, back at the knee, club foot, legs almost put on backwards and so on. Even with a full screen, the angle of the camera is not set up to properly evaluate the wheels. And in any racing machine lousy wheels is a Big Problem. And if you’ve ever seen the photos of the select yearlings and then seen them come in the ring, you quickly realize there is a disconnect - depending on the viewer the feed can stretch a bit. Makes a neck look long, but it also makes a back look longer than it is. Both are deceptive.
There’s a real science to looking at TB pedigrees in an unproven animal. Of course a lot of it is about black type but it’s equally about nicks (who is bred to who) and where someone is bred and what it has been nominated for, which sire is hot, which one is not, whats a good price based on the stud fee at the time it was paid and so on… If it were easy to figure out a lot more people would not lose their shirt in this business.
