Union Rags out for remainder of.. life

[Arletta]

Damn it

[HaloWishingwell]

unfortunate but overrated

[skippy3481]

Well hell if IHA can generate 10 million....

[Merlinsky]

"Minor tendon injury" seems like an oxymoron. Unlike I'll Have Another, a horse like Union Rags has a vacuum to fill in the market after the death of his sire (and grandsire, Dixieland Band in the same year). No KY sons of Dixie Union in Bloodhorse's Stallion Register. Dixie Chatter's in CA for $5,000, but even though he's a G1 winning 2yo, it's not at the level of Union Rags who was very nearly a champion and then goes on to win the Belmont. High Cotton's in FL for $5,000.

UR's got a strong female family, he's physically impressive, and he's precocious but ran in the classics. I wish he had cracked a 100 Beyer, but 95 and 96 were his tops right? I'm sure Mrs. Wyeth would love to keep him going, but tendons are dicey propositions as we saw with IHA, and I don't see how a stud farm won't get a truck full of money backed up to the barn asap.

Lane's End stood Dixie Union. You'd think they'd be interested here if they want a Dixie Union option in KY. They've got Grasshopper, but he's in Texas.

[Indian Charlie]

With a gun to my head and the choice of sending my mare to UR or IHA, everything else being equal, I'd probably roll the dice and go to IHA.

My thoughts are that UR is slightly more likely to be a useful stallion, but IHA has a much bigger chance of being a big time stallion. Mostly because UR has about a 0% chance of being huge.

[Arletta]

UR has small lesion in his high suspensory,which leaves him with a better chance of returning to the track and hopefully not getting zoomed off the the breeding shed.


http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing...-injury-071112

[NoLuvForPletch]

Originally Posted by Arletta

UR has small lesion in his high suspensory,which leaves him with a better chance of returning to the track and hopefully not getting zoomed off the the breeding shed.


http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing...-injury-071112

He's done enough. I'm no vet, but a lesion is a lesion. How fast could they possibly get him back? If they bring him back, aren't they looking at next summer? What's the point?