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Originally Posted by trackrat59
"several good ones" - If you have money you can buy "several good ones" all you want. Once you put them on the track in a race, try and keep them happy and healthy, well, that takes "several good ones" to another place.
I think it was the owner of Lava Man that said something about why he would not take any of the offers he was getting for LM. Something like, what was he going to do with the money? Try and purchase "several good ones" and come up with another Lava Man?
Same concept with HDG. Just saying, If that were my filly I would hold on to her.
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She is a maiden mare in her new career and we don't really need to list the number of really good racemares that were hardly stellar broodmares do we? The odds are that Porter will find the money spent from her purchase far more effective in terms of finding new runners than the money he would have to sink into her as a mare. Between board/farm expenses, stud fee and insurance alone it might cost him close to 1/2 a million a year to keep her.
04-24-2012, 03:53 PM
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