Why do they say Retired when you never really worked

[MisterB]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

actually a horse like scat daddy is about to do a lot more work than he ever did on the racetrack...esp if he is standing at Ashford....3x a day isn't easy when you only get about 12 weeks off a year.
they might as well say....we found him a job rather than we retired him.

Exactly