Tahitian Warrior isn't the only one with no balls

[NTamm1215]

There are two $500,000 stakes and a $1,000,000 stake for 3YOs in the next fourteen days and Godolphin has chosen this for Tahitian Warrior:

3rd (2:03)

1 Mile | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Allowance Optional Claiming ($75,000) | Purse: $52,000

Post # Horse Jockey Weight
1 Seniors Pride Cohen D
2 Tone It Down Bridgmohan S X
3 Birdrun Maragh R
4 Groomedforvictory Dominguez R A
5 Tahitian Warrior Velasquez C
6 More Than a Reason Prado E S

[randallscott35]

Money is meaningless to Godolphin

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Money is meaningless to Godolphin

When you pay $2 million for a gelding you'd think it would matter. Don't forget, this is the outfit that started Girolamo in one of the toughest Grade Is year in and year out off of a 10 month layoff. Something to be said for consistency.

NT

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

When you pay $2 million for a gelding you'd think it would matter. Don't forget, this is the outfit that started Girolamo in one of the toughest Grade Is year in and year out off of a 10 month layoff. Something to be said for consistency.

NT

The saddest irony is that there is a very good chance he would have won this year's Kings Bishop as it played out.

Did you notice Capowino, who won for them in the Spring/Summer at Belmont was also a gelding that they bought after his debut?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

The saddest irony is that there is a very good chance he would have won this year's Kings Bishop as it played out.

Did you notice Capowino, who won for them in the Spring/Summer at Belmont was also a gelding that they bought after his debut?

Yeah, another sterling purchase. He must have gotten hurt after that incredibly impressive allowance win at Belmont in June.

The Pennsylvania Derby probables right now are Trickmeister, Exhi and First Dude. In addition to having 0 graded stakes wins among them, they also all seem to be one-dimensional frontrunners. What would keep someone from trying a horse like Tahitian Warrior against them for a million dollars?

NT

[blackthroatedwind]

It's almost as though they don't want to get Graded wins because he's a gelding.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

When you pay $2 million for a gelding you'd think it would matter. Don't forget, this is the outfit that started Girolamo in one of the toughest Grade Is year in and year out off of a 10 month layoff. Something to be said for consistency.

NT

They hired Betsy to pick the spot for Tahitian Warrior.

[my miss storm cat]

Great title!

[Dahoss]

It really is sort of mind boggling. They buy him, ship him off to Dubai to run in a turf race routing, then give him a schedule that makes Zenyatta's look ambitious. Weird....