By the way, disliking Goldolphin and the other Shieks because of how rich they are doesn't make sense to me....Nearly every poster on this board cannot relate to 99% of the owners in this industry as far as where they are on the economic scale, so who cares how rich the Shiek is? Jess Jackson, Jack Wolf, Mrs. Robsham, Mrs. Lewis, Ahmad Zayat...I could go on for 20 thread worth of names are ALL rich....when does rich become 'too rich'....I don't fell sorry for any of these millionaires.....just because Godolphin is wealthier than the rest of the rich crowd of Thoroughbred horse owners, why hate? He also puts up fifty times the risk that all other owners do....Remember this, horse raicng is a NON PROFITABLE business for 99% of owners and anybody else saying otherwords is just plain lying through their teeth...

If they wanted to take their ball and go home then it would adversly impact our industry by hundreds of millions a year - a negative impact our industry could not afford...many small breeders would go out of business if this happened...thats just a fact...why hate our game's biggest investor?

I think most people hate them because they percieve they are directly resposible for the fact that when they go to the pumps they have to fork up $3/gallon to put into their old Honda Civic when they know how rich the Shieks are...I think that is the root of 90% of the anomosity - of course that is just my opinion......the bottomline is that most owners in this game live in the top .5% of the economic ladder....whats rooting for the 'little' guy who is ONLY worth a few million instead of the Shieks as the enemies because they are worth $100 billion???...Rich is rich to me....it is a rare enough class...