Jack Price a breeder once bred Saggy to a $150 mare Joppy in 1958. The foal was named Carry Back. Saggy and Joppy did not accomplish anything in breeding.
Yet Carry Back won the Cowdin at 2 and 7 races at three including the Kentucky Derby
and Preakness. Carry Back earned purse money of $556,884 in 1961.
Experts who studied Carry Back`s pedigree could find no reason for his success. By all standards Carry Back was a freak and Nature is fickle. Breed the best to the best and hope for the best shrug horseman. Johnny Sellers rode the Cinderella Horse and the horse was much loved by the public. We have several rags to riches horses in American History.
Jack Price, operator of Carry Back, used to argue that the reason cheap horses run cheap is that they are treated cheap. He said there was no suprise about Carry Back because the damn and foal were treated properly.
