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Originally Posted by Princess Doreen
Chuck, I'm not questioning your putting him in a claiming race. I fully realize that's where he had to have been placed. I'm just regretting that he got claimed - that's all. Out of 4 horses in the partnership, we're down to one - Lloydobler. He has yet to break his maiden. The other two horses - Missus Mayflower and Run Burgandy didn't work out - they're off, hopefully, to green pastures elsewhere. So, of the 4 horses, Redboard King has done the best. That's all I'm saying. And, I truly hope the new owners/trainers are not racing an unsound horse if that's what he is.
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We started with them as yearlings and they just turned 4. That is about how it goes. Look at the 4 and up maiden races at GP or FG. Filled with 300k yearlings that havent won yet. Lloyd has run some good races on a tough circuit. I'm pretty sure he could win conditioned 10 claimers. Redboard is what he is. It is a shame that Misses Mayflower couldn't stay sound enough to race because she was really fast and Run Burgandy was a longshot from the start. While we didn't set the world on fire, we won a couple and still have a horse running in NY. I don't think people understand how hard it is to try to take yearlings and develop them. We all see the stars and stakes horses but they are 5% of the lot. Dee Tee was created to give people a chance to be involved without much expense or risk, plain and simple. We as a group and individually are also responsible to protect our horses as much as we can. That means choosing to manage their issues or in the case of RB and MM, simply find better jobs for them. However ALL horses have imfirmities to some degree and IMO runnng RK as competitively as possible was a sound business decision. I dont have a crystal ball so I can't tell you that RBK is going to make 5 or 10 or 0 more starts. But like all horses that put forth any effort, he is going to have some problems down the line.