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Old 06-14-2006, 12:41 PM
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Sacred Light gelded

Sacred Light, who finished ninth in the Belmont, was gelded Tuesday, trainer David Hofmans said.

Hofmans and owners John and Jerry Amerman had considered gelding Sacred Light "for some time" before the loss in the Belmont, Hofmans said. Sent off as a longshot, Sacred Light raced wide for the first mile before fading on the final turn.

"He got on the Tex Sutton bad boy list," Hofmans said, referring to the shipping company. Hofmans said that Sacred Light displayed "stud-like behavior" in the flight from New York to California earlier this week.

"Maybe he'll concentrate a little more" on racing, Hofmans said. "He's been a bit difficult to saddle. We'll freshen him up."

Sacred Light has never finished first in eight starts. He finished second but was placed first in a maiden race at Del Mar last summer after encountering interference in early stretch.
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Old 06-14-2006, 12:44 PM
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Sacred Light gelded

Sacred Light, who finished ninth in the Belmont, was gelded Tuesday, trainer David Hofmans said.

Hofmans and owners John and Jerry Amerman had considered gelding Sacred Light "for some time" before the loss in the Belmont, Hofmans said. Sent off as a longshot, Sacred Light raced wide for the first mile before fading on the final turn.

"He got on the Tex Sutton bad boy list," Hofmans said, referring to the shipping company. Hofmans said that Sacred Light displayed "stud-like behavior" in the flight from New York to California earlier this week.

"Maybe he'll concentrate a little more" on racing, Hofmans said. "He's been a bit difficult to saddle. We'll freshen him up."

Sacred Light has never finished first in eight starts. He finished second but was placed first in a maiden race at Del Mar last summer after encountering interference in early stretch.
Thanks for the info, Scav.
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Old 06-14-2006, 12:46 PM
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Sacred Light gelded

Sacred Light, who finished ninth in the Belmont, was gelded Tuesday, trainer David Hofmans said.

Hofmans and owners John and Jerry Amerman had considered gelding Sacred Light "for some time" before the loss in the Belmont, Hofmans said. Sent off as a longshot, Sacred Light raced wide for the first mile before fading on the final turn.

"He got on the Tex Sutton bad boy list," Hofmans said, referring to the shipping company. Hofmans said that Sacred Light displayed "stud-like behavior" in the flight from New York to California earlier this week.

"Maybe he'll concentrate a little more" on racing, Hofmans said. "He's been a bit difficult to saddle. We'll freshen him up."

Sacred Light has never finished first in eight starts. He finished second but was placed first in a maiden race at Del Mar last summer after encountering interference in early stretch.

It seems kind of late to be doing that,
what do they hope to accomplish ?

if he gets hurt in his next race, he would be off to the shed,
now he has no breeding potentil at all.

i don't know if i agree with this decision, not that what i think makes a bit of difference to anyone, but it seems to me, if he wants to be a stud,

let him go to the farm, makes little sense to me.
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Old 06-14-2006, 12:47 PM
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Paul, they meant he was being a jerkoff on the plane and was impossible to handle, they gelded him to be like "Yo, get your **** together or your going to be running at Beulah"
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Old 06-14-2006, 12:48 PM
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It seems kind of late to be doing that,
what do they hope to accomplish ?

if he gets hurt in his next race, he would be off to the shed,
now he has no breeding potentil at all.

i don't know if i agree with this decision, not that what i think makes a bit of difference to anyone, but it seems to me, if he wants to be a stud,

let him go to the farm, makes little sense to me.
I can't imagine he has any value, isn't his only win a result of a DQ. Horse looked good in the Santa Catalina....
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Old 06-14-2006, 12:54 PM
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Sacred LIght has shown that he isn't good enough horse as a colt to win the big races that will get him a major stud career. He's by Holy Bull, after all, not Storm Cat or A P Indy or one of the big commercial hot-shots, so had to have some first class performances on his CV. As a gelding, he's got a chance to win (or place in, more likely) some decent races over the next few years.
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