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Too bad about RA. Owner caused enough mischief last year over the surface for the BC and now that he got the surface he wanted he quits.What a sport. Now back to Zebedee.
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Nothing weirder than folks Eddie! Richard Hannon does excetionaly well for his owners with these Monsieur Chevalier types and knows when to bite the bullet.
They don’t all achieve what he and Zebedee did but they make money for the owners who in turn continue to support Richard Hannon’s very serious buisiness. Too many people forget it is not just a sport.
Man’s got a brilliant business brain and I’m sure he’s very thankful he has some just as bright owners. Anyone who knocks them for being successful or calls them greedy is in cloud cuckoo land.
But how can you talk up the horse last year and after what he has achieved this year talk him down again.Is this an example of why people buying horses don’t trust race horse folk? I believe one should never talk down someone elses horses or any horse before trying them.
I can’t understand why they didn’t take a chance in the Abbaye, at wfa terms he would’ve had a chance at getting a group 1 win or place on his resume. If he’d been beat it wouldn’t have made much difference, if any, to his stud value.
He now goes to stud as a small, Gr.2 winner who was never tried at the top level and was thought unlikely by connections to train on at 3. It’s hardly a record to command much of a fee or attract top quality mares at stud, no matter how speedy he looked on the track.
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Becasue Zebedee wouldn’t get a hundred yards in really soft or heavy ground and it costs a lot of money to send a horse to France.
Had it not been the case it would have been an ideal opportunityy to boost his value if he was their’s to keep but it wasn’t to be and there are no other opportunities for the horse so they’ve done the sensible thing.
Anyway he wasn’t retired to stud as was reposted in the media he was sold to stud which is a bit differnet and apparantly for an amount that his owner would have been crazy to refuse.
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