Attendees at Thoroughbred sales are used to familiar faces—the industry is a tight-knit circle comprised of people attending the same events. But the Keeneland September Yearling Sale brought a different type of familiar face to the sales pavilion Sept. 10.
Terry Bradshaw, the Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers who for the last 30 years has come into homes as part of FOX's NFL Sunday crew, was in Lexington Tuesday.
The four-time Super Bowl winner, who was involved with Thoroughbred racing in the past, wants to get back in the game.
Attending the sale with his wife, Tammy, and partner Steve Davison, Bradshaw said that he and a yet-to-be-named partnership hope to "get lucky."
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"My wife and I want to have a little more fun," Bradshaw said. "We do hunters, jumpers, pleasure, halter, and we're in the breeding business. But I said, 'Let's get back in.'
"We're going to get one running horse either here or somewhere, and we'll get back in. We'll probably buy in. There's a little partnership thing we're working on, but we'll come back in."
Bradshaw named Justify , Curlin , and Constitution among the current sires that he admires and perhaps will target their offspring. Davison and Randy Gullatt's Twin Creeks Racing Stable bought Constitution for $400,000 at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale before selling a stake to WinStar Farm.
But Unbridled's Song was Bradshaw's "passion." That passion led to Bradshaw co-owning two of his sons—Mission Impazible, who won the 2010 Louisiana Derby (G2) en route to a spot in that year's Kentucky Derby (G1), and grade 1 winner Graydar .
He remembers walking Graydar off the track following his win in the 2013 New Orleans Handicap (G2). Bradshaw said the photo of that moment is the "greatest picture" in his office.
The quarterback-turned-broadcaster said he used to come to sales at Keeneland frequently but his focus was predominantly in Quarter Horses. He focused his attention on growing that aspect of his racing operations and sold all of his Thoroughbreds. Now, he is reducing his Quarter Horse stock by 90% with a sale Oct. 5 in Saint Jo, Texas.
And he hopes to chase glory in the world of Thoroughbreds.
"There's nothing like the Super Bowl," Bradshaw said of the thrill of winning on the track. "It doesn't compare to that, but it is pretty friggin' awesome. I can't do the Super Bowl anymore, but I can get lucky in the horse business because that's what you have to do—you have to get lucky."
