Face the Cat, Behindatthebar To Padua/Pletcher

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Linny

Funny thing is that one of the most "hated" sets of owners in my lifetime was the "Slew Crew" and yet they never sold him and even went out and bought mares to support him.

I tend to agree with you on this, as they were determined to race him even though he almost died early in his 4YO year, but I'm not sure half of him wasn't sold, at least for breeding, during that season. At the very least I'm virtually certain he was technically on the market.

I do agree with the rest of your post that we all tend to overlook the bigger picture. Frankly, there is a very reasonable chance that someone like Tafel could, and does, put at least some of the money from that sale to much better use than having Street Sense make a handful of starts this year.