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Originally Posted by TierceSurprise
Well when you own a huge stallion operation, you of course would want to try and buy the best so that if they turn out to be good, you have the stranglehold of the breed rights. Darley have 2 studs here in Australia, with i think about 20 stallions between the 2?
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Ofcourse, but it's doing the sport no good at all. Soon enough they will competing against themselves and nobody else.
They always go on about how they have the best stallions and home bred mares in the business, so why the need to buy everyone elses? None of their home breds are ever their stable stars (not for some years now), their breeding operation stinks, their training methods also stink. Hence the reason they need to buy other horses in training. Other people do all of the work, and then they take the credit.
That isn't how it should be.
Brock, you say that the extra 50% share isn't a big deal..... but it is. From now on, it will have nothing to do with the Bolger camp where the horse runs. If the Sheikh wants a clear way for another of his horses in the Guineas, this fella won't even line up. That is what i don't like. The Sheikh gets to call the shots now...... a nasty thought.
Soon we will see group 1 races with horses either all trained by godolphin or all owned by Sheikh Mohammed, and as soon as one of them wins.... he will have done enough and will be packing him off to stud.
Even Coolmore won't be able to keep up with the money they are willing to spend before long, and yet Aidan O'Brien (who doesn't even train in Britain) is able to win the British trainers title. What does that tell you?
Godolphin are MASSIVE underachievers, even though they have the most money and apparently have the best breeding operation and they buy everyone elses good horses. Anyone with half a brain and see that they cannot run a business or train racehorses.
They "said" they were going to cut down on the horses they trained, which meant they had to cut many jobs...... so far i have seen no sign of them cutting down on the horses they train. Sure, they sold a few, but they have bought more than they have sold. So all they have done is put people out of work.
Sorry for the rant, but it really upsets me that they can continue to ruin racing like they are doing and will soon do in America.