the green monkey
 

Poetic justice of some sort ...... yesterday's "edge"



In other stallion news, the 2009 stud fee for THE GREEN MONKEY (Forestry), whose retirement to Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds near Ocala, Florida, was announced in February, has been determined. Sold for a world-record auction price of $16 million at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Calder Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale, he will stand for $5,000

he's gonna have to cover a LOT of mares at that price for them to recoup their investment.
he better get busy.

Sounds like TGM had a master plan all along;)

Lets see 16,000,000/5000 = 3200.......yeah I would say stamina may be an issue here.
The Monkey may have problems at this distance...

They also plan for him to do children's birthday parties too!

you think they're trying to teach him how to make balloon animals?? :D

he'd have to cover 160 mares a year for 20 years-and have every one of them take and produce a live foal. and that's just the purchase price....then there's covering his feed bills, etc..

Ah but that implies he actually cost them the price he brought at the sale.

ok, they didn't actually pay the $16 million?

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Touché.......very witty!

He had done enough

yeah, i know-i think pretty much everyone has heard the story by now.

With his back breeding....I'd take a shot for 5K.

I hope they breed him to Giant's Causeway.

:confused:

I don't know.
If you want the Storm Cat sire line for $5k, I think Newfoundland might actually be a better choice. His dam was a multiple-G1 winner who has produced several decent horses, while I don't think TGM's dam has even produced a winner yet.

Regarding TGM, I am aware of the fact that on-track performance often doesn't translate to the shed, but for 5k, I would like to have seen the horse do SOMETHING in his career.