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00:00Russell in Poland knew she was having a year to remember when Witt, a two-year-old colt
00:08bred at her Sunday morning farm, became a graded-stakes winning TDN Rising Star.
00:14Now she has a new memory to add to an unforgettable year as her City of Light colt sold for $1.7
00:20million at the Keeneland September Sale.
00:25When Witt was showing, every time he came out of his stall he just got bigger and had
00:33more presence and was loftier.
00:38Well now the Anchorage colt was always that way, whether it was the farm or the sale.
00:47He was always take command.
00:52From the minute he first stood, he was just, some horses give you that feeling and some
01:00don't.
01:04I spend a lot of time with my horses and every day he always made me feel like how lucky
01:14I am.
01:15You know, just a good attitude, but nothing super sweet about him.
01:21You know, he's always been a man, and he showed it over here.
01:39And the fact that people have been so genuinely happy for me, people I don't even know, and
01:47people say, oh, did you expect that?
01:49Well, nobody ever dreams of even getting a million dollars.
01:54I knew he would be well-received, and I knew people would like him, but nobody even thinks
02:01of liking him for that kind of money.
02:06And it's just, the words haven't been invented yet to describe that feeling.
02:18The best thing about what I do is that I go back home and work.
02:25You know, my celebration is all right here.
02:29I go home from the sale and have fly masks to tend to and stalls to tend to, and that
02:38keeps me grounded, and it keeps me happy.
02:42It fills me up.
02:43I think it's what keeps us all working in the horse thoroughbred business is, you know,
02:52for years I sold yearlings for $3,000.
02:56When I finally sold one for $15,000, I thought, oh, yeah.
03:04And I think it has more to do with luck than it has to do with hard work or intention or
03:12being out there every evening going through your fields, because we all do that.
03:17We all work hard, and some of us get lucky, and some of us haven't had our luck yet.
03:26And that's why we keep doing it.
03:30And it's just amazing to think that a payoff like this can happen to anybody.