A.P. Warrior retired; to stand at Stonewall

Originally Posted by Betsy

I am the biggest AP Indy fan in the world, but I don't like this horse at all. He was completely ungenuine - his poor efforts far outweighed his good ones, and usually he didn't try at all. For a graded stakes winner on turf and dirt, APW was not very good. I'm sure they retired him because, with further racing, all APW would have done was to continue to lower his potential stud fee. Smart move by the owner - I'm sure John Shirreffs advised him that he could do nothing further with this colt.

Turf was not his thing...he wasn't bred for it and he wasn't ever going to be beter on it than dirt...

I actually have the opposte logic in this case....he sin't respected as being genuine right now by people in the racing circles, so he could only enhance his value IMO.....some of his worst characteristics - like not being very game and being mentally immature on regular occasion - were of the variety that you could assume he'd improve with age and mental maturity. They never gave the horse time to get older and for the proverbial 'light bulb' to go off in his head.....I think he actually possessed the upside to be a better older horse for mental reasons alone...you always got the impression that he hadn't quite figured it out yet and that he was not running at his full potential. So, with that sort of upside why not give him the chance to fulfill his potential and run at 4?