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Originally Posted by Riot

And Jackson has said that's his final offer to buy the horse out, it won't increase.

So Jackson has Midnight Cry as minority partners through the stallion thing. I wonder what the contract says about participation and financial obligations of the minority partners re: the stud deal?

And if those lawyers have money to throw at a horses' stallion career as minority partners, yeah, I think those $$ ought to go to replace the $$ they stole from their phen-fen clients.

The BH article says a lawyer for Stonestreet said it might cost Tandy as much as $1million a year to support their share. Is that possible? He also invoked Cigar, so it might have been scare tactics. (Booga booga, expensive sterile horse, booga booga) I assume there's infertility insurance on him, right?

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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

:rolleyes:

Can we be honest for a second. You have never liked Curlin, not even a little bit. I get it, you can't stand Asmussen and have said as much probably a million times. And I totally get being turned off by the situation with his owners and the "media" making him seem better than he really was.

But, do you really deny Curlin was a good horse? Is he an all time great? Of course not. Is he even close to as good as Jess Jackson thinks? Of course not, but you're a pretty knowledgable fan. He's not Spectacular Bid good, but he's not Tomcito either.

I understand being turned off by everything on the human side of Curlin. And the media has made it difficult to defend him because of their antics. But, think about the last 2 years without Curlin. That's some scary bad racing. Especially this year.

Very well said.

--Dunbar