Originally Posted by asudevil

No Zayat isn't the only owner but Bill won't tell him to F-off for this reason:

Zayat has approx 40 horses with Mott (about 25% of his whole stable)....At a volume discount of 80 bucks a day training fees that's $96,000/month coming in or close 1.2 million a year.

Bill has a large payroll with staff in NY, FL, and KY.

Cigar hasn't raced in almost a dozen years and the Theatrical money is ancillary.

So I respectfully disagree that Bill would send Ahmad packing with the economics described above.

Originally Posted by monipenny

I have to respectfully disagree that Bill DOES NOT have a large payroll to pay for staff in KY. Where have you been man? Mott hasn't run shhhit in KY for almost ten years, and most if not all the stock running in KY is strictly second tier horses'. His best have been running almost strictly in NY and FL.

Originally Posted by ELA

Is that what Mott gets now -- $80 a day with the volume discount? How many do you have to have in the barn to get the volume discount?

Anyway, that's really big money. I wonder how much Mott is making on the $80 a day.

Eric

Originally Posted by asudevil

Wrong Sir/Madam...Wrong!!

Mott has at least 20 Claiborne horses in KY alone.....He uses KY as a midwest base and ships in and out of there to Arlington, Fairgrounds, Keeneland, and Turfway.....Please don't try to come on the board with opinions that you misrepresent as facts.