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Originally Posted by Kasept
Please.. 'truly sad'? As explained here by many and elsewhere by anyone in bloodstock, there's no market for him here. NONE. If you want a horse of his caliber you can breed to Flower Alley and get one. Or Distorted Humor if you want one the caliber of Flower Alley and can afford it. Or go to OBS and try to craft one for $25k-$40.
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Yeah, although it's sad to see him go, there really isn't a market, it's just a no brainer for Mr. Reddam, and the interest of the Japanese in Flower Alley's family put that writing on the wall awhile back. He'll arguably have a better chance of success there than here, not having to compete with his sire and grandsire. If someone wants his particular genes badly enough, he's not behind an iron curtain. You could get to him if you had to. Import a foal in utero or something. I doubt anybody's gonna unless he ended up being the next Sunday Silence. I'm just saying you could.
Isn't there a possibility that he could've won the Triple Crown, gotten injured before the Travers instead, and still ended up in Japan? Is the cache of being the TC winner really enough to keep him here?
His female family is what it is. The Distorted Humor and Flower Alley situations would still affect his value in the US market. Case Clay speculated about what a TC winner would be worth, and I'm not sure that the number Reddam got offered for a dual Classic winning IHA jumps that much post-Belmont win vs. what the Japanese would be willing to offer. Would IHA need a TC win and a strong rest of his 3yo season to earn his spot here? Does he have to race at 4? I got the impression that a 4yo career was in the cards and wondered if that wasn't to try to improve the offer they'd get from US farms. Didn't work for Sunday Silence.