A well spotted Media Watch segment from an Australian reader:

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Peter O'Brien from Coolmore was on Bred to Win this weekend previewing the stud's Easter crop.

Naturally, every single yearling has tremendous quality, bone, balance, shoulder, muscle, scope and so on.

Particularly interesting was his spiel about Private Steer's full brother. He says he was talking to John O'Shea the other day about Private Steer as a young horse, and it was amazing how similar the Coolmore yearling is to Private Steer as a young horse.

Trouble is - John O'Shea didn't have Private Steer as a young horse. He didn't take over her training until half way through her 3yo year !

So unless O'Shea was either at the 2001 Scone Magic Millions Sale paying particular attention to but not buying a future multiple G1 winner for $18,000 or was at her first trainer Lee Curtis' stable for a year or two early in her career, he wouldn't have had any idea of what Private Steer looked like as a young horse.

(Commenting on this post a reader from the US wrote: "Enjoyed your post on media watch. There is nothing like a little spin to make the pre-sale hype work all that much better.

The more interesting question regarding the full brother to Private Steer is how many buyers want their colts to look like fillies?")

A worthy question indeed :)