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Originally Posted by Pillow Pants
Well after doing some research I may be wrong in calling the Haisfield's elitist *******s. It seems that they're not your typical second or third generation blue blood and are actually quite new to the game. So I'll just call them naive jackasses since they overpaid for LR. 
And they're really naive if they think Pletcher is going to lead this horse to a classic win. If things come together perfectly LR could have a shot at the Donn at GP but that's a longshot and a complete guess on my part. For all I know Pletcher could send him west. |
I was just going to post a piece about the Haisfield's. Its guys like you who claim to love racing and have all teh wrong ideas that make me sick.
Look, we NEED more people like them, new people who love the game and jump in with both feet first. They would be anti establishment, anti elitist people, too bad you did your research AFTER the fact instead of before your ill advised post bashing them.
Ok, so now they overpaid. But thats what the stallion game is at that point Pillow, do you know much about it? If you are buying one at the end of his career, its pretty obvious what his market value is. WHen you SPECULATE and buy one before the Tri Crown, its always gonna be a huge gamble, where you overpay based on the hope that he wins a classic race and then you UNDERPAID. But if he doesn't you have to make lemons out of lemonade.
Yeah, he overpaid perhaps. And everyone got rich except him.
A friend of mine brokered one of his stallions and after working in this business for 30-40 years, he finally got set for life. Says the guys a complete gentleman.
Obviously he loves the game, dove in headfirst, and is trying to make a go of it. Everytime one of those horses gets bought, a lotta people make a lotta dough. The kinda dough they might not make in 5 years of business, rising each day and working their asses off.
I find it hard to label him a bad guy or elitist because he made a business decision aimed at what he feels is his best attempt to make his dough back.
Most people who play in this business lose. He wouldn't be the first to overpay on a stallion.
We need more guys like this guy joining the business in order for it to survive the long haul. NEW money is what we desperately need. Self made guys who jump in and go for it. Its real easy for a fourth generation robber baron's offspring to kick up 100 mill out of the trust fund they were left. Its a lot harder for someone who worked their whole lives in business to get to the point where they can do something like this if they CHOOSE to.
If he violated a contract, I'm sure it will go to court, and the damaged party be awarded just compensation. I'm not gonna say if he did that, that its ok.
But I'm not gonna condemn teh guy either, and again, I don't find Pletcher to be the key part of this story. To me hes just a footnote. If it wasn't Pletcher it woulda been some other big name trainer whose already successful. I don't see the difference.