With $1.6 Million Purchase, LaPenta Hopes To Make Up For The One That Got Away
In September of 2008, Robert LaPenta paid $160,000 for a yearling colt from the first crop of Bernardini, the 2006 Preakness winner and 3-year-old Eclipse champion. Five months later, he sold the same horse for $500,000…and he regrets it to this day. “I bought a number of horses from Bernardini’s first crop, and I made…