7 of 8 BC winners to run next year

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I know I'm going to sound like a pooh-pooher, but it's not really retirement; it's her next career-- she'll be either pregnant or nursing for the rest of her active years, which is not exactly risk-free for mares. It's not like they're retiring her so she can relax- they're moving her to broodmare so they can, hopefully for them, continue to make money off of her.

Mind you, I agree that there isn't much left for her to prove, and since Kingmambo seems to be getting a bit long in the tooth in HIS second career, perhaps better to get a Kingmambo baby as soon as possible!

I can't grouse about retiring a five-year-old mare the way I can a three-year-old colt, though, so I'm looking forward to following her babies' careers. Plus, it's easier to follow a mare's babies, since they don't have as many!

I don't agree, it is not a ''career'', it's as natural to a horse as living and breathing, as with all life. The mares spend the majority of their lives grazing and raising their foals, they love it, ever hear a mare nicker at the straw in her stall as she's being led in to foal?They know the little one is coming, they adore their foals. I'm not saying theres no risk, but there is risk in them just living. I guess my point is a top class broodmare lives about as ideal a life as a horse can, and that is what Ouija Board has earned at this point.