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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
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.
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Your finest post. People have no clue how lucky you have to be.
Assuming someone bought 6 yearlings all whiched had good conformation, pedigree and vetted clean if 3 made money it would be awesome. I don't care if they are 15k, 150k or 1.5mil a piece, its just impossible to do anything but try your best and pray!
We dealt with this in July and Aug, last year. How many La Penta/Zito 200kplus yearling were culled in 5k-20k mdn races at Suffolk this summer? Zito had a ton of success with Lapenta and still at least 5 or 6 were complete frogs. It is what it is.