03/21/2026
Remember when Storm Cat’s stud fee was a cool $500,000?
Chump change to some, no doubt, but what a gigantic gamble.
Case in point---One morning about 20-25 years ago I was riding on fire lane 3 in the Walthour-Moss Foundation when I saw a man riding toward me on a rather plain looking bay gelding.
We stopped to chat, as one does, and the guy pointed to his horse---“By Storm Cat. Couldn’t outrun a fat man downhill. There went half a million down the drain.”
Royal pedigree does not guarantee a royal performance, not in horses, dogs, humans, guppies.
Well, maybe in guppies?
