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Old 08-18-2007, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
I beg to differ. Coolmore's stallion roster in the US is full of middle of the road types, some old ones, some fading ones, and a couple of promising ones. American breeders with the power mares are thinking twice about Coolmore stallions because they know the biggest player is out of the market for their foals. Darley is also driving up the premium stallion market to force Coolmore to either overpay for a prospect or not be a player for them. They did it to him and now he is doing it to them.
but with coolmore being world wide, and having so much success still overseas, does the loss of potential customers over here level their playing field? just seems you see a lot of articles lately talking about godolphin staggering along, while coolmore continues to win the big ones.
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