Sophie Buckley Joins Conversations with Emma Berry

And so I'm presuming now at this point, we've got outside the window yearlings being photographed and I'm sure plenty of yearlings in prep now for the sales.

How many will you be consigning this year? I

think over in total, it's about 28.

So it's not massive.

It's a sort of similar number, but they're very well spread out.

I've got five for Donny's, six for Somerville, none for book one this year.

But this will be the first year that every horse I sell is a homebred.

so

no pin hooked horses okay um but i'm hoping you know maybe in a couple of years time i will get back to book one it's easier to pin hook it's easier to get into book one when you're selling a pin hooked horse because you can just target go out and target what horse you buy But homebred, obviously, it just takes time to build.

So really these next five years at Culworth is really focusing in on that transition of homebred horses.

And those are the horses that we'll be selling.

I'm not saying I won't pinhook, I'll try.

But I just feel like for me, now the pinhooking, you have to be pinhooking at a very high level.

And when they run into the fence and they've cost a hundred thousand,

it's just, it's not that much fun.

No, no, it's very

stressful.

And, you know, you're risking so much money to potentially, well, you know,

lose it.

Mind you, a lot of people would say that breeding is the biggest gamble of all.

I suppose it is.

And I mean, look, the thing is, I'm not out there yet using Frankel or Dubawi.

I put a lot of work into the horses that I use in terms of Making money is not my number one aim, which maybe sounds very strange, but I want to put myself in statistically the best chance of breeding a racehorse at the best price that I can afford.

So I try and use horses that are proven.

Like, for example, this year we used Oasis Dream.

And so I'm presuming now at this point, we've got outside the window yearlings being photographed and I'm sure plenty of yearlings in prep now for the sales.

How many will you be consigning this year? I

think over in total, it's about 28.

So it's not massive.

It's a sort of similar number, but they're very well spread out.

I've got five for Donny's, six for Somerville, none for book one this year.

But this will be the first year that every horse I sell is a homebred.

so

no pin hooked horses okay um but i'm hoping you know maybe in a couple of years time i will get back to book one it's easier to pin hook it's easier to get into book one when you're selling a pin hooked horse because you can just target go out and target what horse you buy But homebred, obviously, it just takes time to build.

So really these next five years at Culworth is really focusing in on that transition of homebred horses.

And those are the horses that we'll be selling.

I'm not saying I won't pinhook, I'll try.

But I just feel like for me, now the pinhooking, you have to be pinhooking at a very high level.

And when they run into the fence and they've cost a hundred thousand,

it's just, it's not that much fun.

No, no, it's very

stressful.

And, you know, you're risking so much money to potentially, well, you know,

lose it.

Mind you, a lot of people would say that breeding is the biggest gamble of all.

I suppose it is.

And I mean, look, the thing is, I'm not out there yet using Frankel or Dubawi.

I put a lot of work into the horses that I use in terms of Making money is not my number one aim, which maybe sounds very strange, but I want to put myself in statistically the best chance of breeding a racehorse at the best price that I can afford.

So I try and use horses that are proven.

Like, for example, this year we used Oasis Dream.