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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
$12 million is not a bad price. This guy has made so much money from oil over the last few years that $12 million is what he makes in the first 20 minutes of each day.
Spending $16M on an unproven horse is ridiculous, but $12M for this one is actually not that bad.
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I agree. What I think will happen now is that people will have higher expectations for Vineyard Haven simply because of what Sheikh Mo paid for him when in reality, the price doesn't have anything to do with how good the horse actually is or isn't. That's what I was trying to say before. You can't have an accurate price to expectation chart when it comes to people with this much money. If I go spend $50k on a car, you better believe I'm expecting it to be something special. If I spend $5k on a car, I'm just looking for something to get me to and from work, something to bridge the gap til I can find something better. In other words, you have to look at how much a person spends relative to what they have in order to tell what the realistic expectations of said purchase should be.
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