Godolphin/Darley article

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Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

I apologise if i have upset anyone in this thread.

I have been trying to get what i'm 99% sure is the truth across. Maybe when Godolphin start taking over in the U.S you will see where i'm coming from.

I respect your owners for not giving up to them, especially the smaller owners that manage to find a really nice horse every so often.

I guess i'm sick of seeing them buy everything that is in their way, just because their breeding operation cannot produce the goods anymore. I hope that now they have pruchased some good stallion prospects that the mass buying will stop, and it will encourage more owners back into the sport. I'm sick of all these good horses just 'disapearing' or all of a sudden becoming useless.

As you can tell, i'm very passionate about this subject.

I don't want to fall out with anyone over this, but i do think some of you turn a blind eye to them just because they like a number of the horses they train.

I don't have a problem with Godolphin bashing. I don't think Shiekh Mo is particularly good for the sport since he seems too into the breeding aspect these days and it is taking good horses off the track. I think Shiekh Hamdan actually does care about the sporting aspect. I just don't understand when you start bashing them while defending Coolmore at every turn. There is no difference between the two groups to me. If anything Coolmore is worse for the game sending horses like Holy Roman Emperor and Aussie Rules to stud early and healthy. At least Bernardini I could understand the urge to retire.