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Old 12-22-2009, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Why would you take a horse you pay $1.6 million for at a 2yo sale - that's sired by Medaglia D' Oro and is a half sibling to Midas Eyes ... and run him on turf in Europe?
I wouldn't.

But then again, I wouldn't employ any of their trainers or advisors either.

Perhaps they think having El Prado and Bayou Hebert as grandsires means turf?

When looking up Bayou Hebert, I found some interesting things about him. Mostly he wasn't worth his rather lofty sales price, but when looking up his progeny, I noticed this one pretty strangely bred horse:

http://www.pedigreequery.com/byo+flyer
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