SHAME ON YOU Anstu Stable

[Linny]

There's no way to know if Todd was planning to retire him or race him. Remember, Todd doesn't train for Anstu anymore. Maybe he was looking for a horse for a client to race? I don't know and Todd isn't saying.

I'm glad the horse will have a nice home though I'm not crazy about the idea of not gelding him. Entire horses generally lead frustrated and lonely lives as herd animals who are kept isolated. If he's to be a cometitive horse it can be a challenge and unless he turns out to be better at his chosen (given?) field than he was at racing, he probably won't be used as a breeding animal.


To Amelia: Bettors/fans of racing get a bad reputation for not caring about horses yet everyone on here echoed concern for this popular horse. Far too often animals like Ibeboyee end up back on the track, at Beulah or Fairmont. Since the sale price was modest, I can't help but wonder why as prominent an owner wouldn't have found a less public way to place his former stakes runner?

I know how expensive it is to keep horses, I've done it most of my life. Most of them former racehorses in fact. I understand that even big outfits owned by people most of us would call "wealthy" have to cut back and sell off non productive animals, especially when the ones in training are not exactly winning in bunches. There are plenty of programs out there willing to take in nice retraining projects to ready them for sale into non-racing home. You could have contacted them when he was sidelined and offered to take him, should he need a home. (Maybe you did.) Clearly they had tried to sell him as a stallion but nothing worked out and they dropped him in the sale and found out what his true market value was, less that what they hoped would have been his stud fee!

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Linny

There's no way to know if Todd was planning to retire him or race him.

If he wasn't willing to bid past $2,000 ... I am going to go out on a limb and say he wasn't planning on racing him.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

If he wasn't willing to bid past $2,000 ... I am going to go out on a limb and say he wasn't planning on racing him.

I bet he wasn't planning on breeding him either. Gelding would've likely been in Ibboyee's future. I'm guessing Todd did that to make sure he wasn't completely bottom of the barrel as a sort of reserve where he'd end up with the horse if nobody else stepped up. Once he saw someone else was bidding and wanted Ibboyee, he let them have him.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

I bet he wasn't planning on breeding him either. Gelding would've likely been in Ibboyee's future. I'm guessing Todd did that to make sure he wasn't completely bottom of the barrel as a sort of reserve where he'd end up with the horse if nobody else stepped up. Once he saw someone else was bidding and wanted Ibboyee, he let them have him.

The chance of Todd Pletcher actually being there at the end of the 10th session of Keeneland November is roughly the same as Elvis being there. Perhaps he had someone make 1 bid to ensure he was well above killer prices. Regardless while it is nice that this particular horse wound up in a good place far more needs to be done and calling people out is unfortunately about the best way to spur action.

[Cannon Shell]

Looking back through the results how did Moro Tap bring $350k?