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[NoChanceToDance]

So much for reducing the numbers of horses they have in training

What a joke.

Goodbye racing, hello an uncompetitive sport.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

Goodbye racing, hello an uncompetitive sport.

They can compete against each other!

[my miss storm cat]

RP.....


New Approach is all Darley's

by Brian Fleming

NEW APPROACH, 9-4 favourite with sponsors Stan James to win next year's 2,000 Guineas, has been bought outright by Darley and will carry new colours next season.

Confirming the purchase of the season's leading juvenile and in another sign of Sheikh Mohammed's determination to strengthen the stallion prospects for his breeding operation, Darley spokesman John Ferguson said: “I can confirm we have purchased the other 50 per cent of New Approach and Darley now own the horse outright.

“He will run in the colours of Her Royal Highness Princess Haya next year and will be kept in training with Jim Bolger.”

A 50 per cent stake in the unbeaten Galileo colt had been acquired by Darley before he registered his second Group 2 success in the Dewhurst last month for Jackie and Jim Bolger, in a race coincidentally sponsored by Sheikh Mohammed.

Bolger expressed his satisfaction with the sale.

“I'm delighted to have recently concluded the deal with Darley and am very happy to be training him for the coming 12 months,” said the Coolcullen trainer.

“The 2,000 Guineas is his early season target and these days he's doing light exercise and is out in the paddock with his pony and generally enjoying life. We're all looking forward to next year.”

Regal Flush, last sighted when a close fourth to Lucarno in the St Leger at Doncaster in September, has left Sir Michael Stoute's yard after being purchased by Godolphin.

Formerly owned by Cheveley Park Stud, Regal Flush wasbeaten only two lengths in the final domestic Classic, for which he was supplemented in the week before the race.

A winner of three of his nine starts, the son of Sakhee had previously run out a convincing winner of the valuable Old Borough Cup at Haydock.

Simon Crisford, racing manager to Godolphin, said: “Regal Flush has joined our team and will be transferred from Newmarket to Dubai shortly.

“He won't be campaigned over the winter, but plans beyond that are undecided.”

Crisford also revealed that the high-class French colt Sagara, third to Dylan Thomas in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last time, had also been added to the team.

He added: “Sagara has also recently joined us from France and plans for him will be sorted out shortly.”

[NoChanceToDance]

It's becoming a joke.

Slowly but surely they are ruining a sport. Their bloodstock operation is slowly ruining horseracing, and their training operation ruins the racehorses. So much for Rio De La Plata being the "real deal", surely this just cements the fact Rio isn't up to this class.

They say they have the best breeding operation in the world..... well, why don't they use it?? That is the biggest joke of all.

At least he hasn't gone to the racehorse ruining factory, i suppose.

[brockguy]

if you inspect their purchases today, its not actually that big.. OK New Approach is, but he already had a half share in him, but the 2 others if you look at their form are nothing special. They could develop into lovely horses, but all Sagara has won is a maiden and been beaten in all his group efforts so far.. and Regal Flush is essentially a stayer and Coolmore have at least 3 stayers that are better than him.

Schiaparelli is the one that catches the eye among their recent purchases. Thye get things right with him and he could be a right monster..

Well when you own a huge stallion operation, you of course would want to try and buy the best so that if they turn out to be good, you have the stranglehold of the breed rights. Darley have 2 studs here in Australia, with i think about 20 stallions between the 2?

[NoChanceToDance]

Originally Posted by TierceSurprise

Well when you own a huge stallion operation, you of course would want to try and buy the best so that if they turn out to be good, you have the stranglehold of the breed rights. Darley have 2 studs here in Australia, with i think about 20 stallions between the 2?

Ofcourse, but it's doing the sport no good at all. Soon enough they will competing against themselves and nobody else.

They always go on about how they have the best stallions and home bred mares in the business, so why the need to buy everyone elses? None of their home breds are ever their stable stars (not for some years now), their breeding operation stinks, their training methods also stink. Hence the reason they need to buy other horses in training. Other people do all of the work, and then they take the credit.

That isn't how it should be.

Brock, you say that the extra 50% share isn't a big deal..... but it is. From now on, it will have nothing to do with the Bolger camp where the horse runs. If the Sheikh wants a clear way for another of his horses in the Guineas, this fella won't even line up. That is what i don't like. The Sheikh gets to call the shots now...... a nasty thought.

Soon we will see group 1 races with horses either all trained by godolphin or all owned by Sheikh Mohammed, and as soon as one of them wins.... he will have done enough and will be packing him off to stud.

Even Coolmore won't be able to keep up with the money they are willing to spend before long, and yet Aidan O'Brien (who doesn't even train in Britain) is able to win the British trainers title. What does that tell you?

Godolphin are MASSIVE underachievers, even though they have the most money and apparently have the best breeding operation and they buy everyone elses good horses. Anyone with half a brain and see that they cannot run a business or train racehorses.

They "said" they were going to cut down on the horses they trained, which meant they had to cut many jobs...... so far i have seen no sign of them cutting down on the horses they train. Sure, they sold a few, but they have bought more than they have sold. So all they have done is put people out of work.

Sorry for the rant, but it really upsets me that they can continue to ruin racing like they are doing and will soon do in America.