Sal Simeone was shopping at the 2004 Ocala Breeders’ March sale of 2-year-olds in training with one goal—a common dream shared by all horsemen: to discover that special horse that would put him on top of the world.
Simeone, who grew up around Quarter Horses and had begun claiming Thoroughbreds just a few months prior, was ready to put his horse sense to the test when a chance
meeting clinched him and his wife, Colleen, their best horse to date. While Sal Simeone scoured the sales grounds, carefully analyzing each horse and its corresponding catalog page, Colleen Simeone and their daughter, Jennifer, fell in love with a gray filly that had just been bought back.
“They both liked grays and saw (the filly) behind the bars in the stall,” Sal Simeone explained. “They took a quick look at her, took a quick look at the book, and just picked her out by sight.”
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