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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Rupert, you definitely are very in tuned with what is going on, so please do not take this as any offense, but there is no way this horse makes a start in a stakes race. Easily one of the worst purchases ever. When you are purchased for such a high sum, so early, usually the thought is precocious juvenile. No one spends that kind of money for a horse who may start at 3. Honestly, I am glad. Maybe now there will be some sort of realistic prices for horses, and there will not be a pissing match between the two worse things for modern day racing, Coolmore and Godolphin.
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They overpaid for the horse by a million times. I'm not denying that. This horse should have sold for $500,000 or so. And as you said, they were obviously expecting him to run as a 2 year old. I totally agree with you on both of those points.
However, I don't know how you can you say that he will never run in a stakes race. There have been hundreds of horses over the last 10 years that didn't run until they were 3 years old and ended up being stakes horses. It's way too early to say that The Green Monkey won't win a stakes race. It's not too early to say that they paid way too much for him. But it is too early to say that he won't win a stakes race.