GEORGETOWN, KY (1010 WINS) -- When someone tells you that something is a load of horse manure, now you can say, 'yes, but it's $200 horse manure.'
An artist is selling jars of excrement -- you know, poop -- from 1997 Kentucky Derby Champion 'Silver Charm.'
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It all started when artist Coleman Larkin decided to coat a piece of cat droppings to put on his desk, the New York Post reports.
"It's difficult to work with. That went wrong," Larkin said.
Larkin said he experimented with horses from a local stable before finding the right formula for horse poop and started looking for interested partners.
"If I could figure out a way to do a horse turd, I knew that'd fit into their style perfectly," Larkin said. "It took months to figure out how to do it, but I finally cracked the code."
His search took him to Coolmore Farms, home to American Pharoah and Justify, the last two Triple Crown winners.
"They were not into that idea at all," Larkin said.
But it turns out he had a friend at Old Friends Farm -- that's where Silver Charm has been trotting around.
Larkin made 100 jars to feature on the Kentucky for Kentucky website.
"Equal parts art and novelty, these gorgeous nuggets of digested Kentucky bluegrass and whatever else horses eat were daringly harvested by the artist himself, fresh from the haunches of legendary 1997 Kentucky Derby winner Silver Charm at Old Friends Farm in Georgetown, KY," the website explains.
The resin-coated feces are in limited supply, so get yours before they're gone.
Proceeds are going to the thoroughbred retirement facility in Kentucky where Silver Charm lives.
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