PETA - Big Brown

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Honestly it is about price also. If you could get to him for $20k you may take a chance he is going to do ok. But for $75k he is a huge risk for the reasons you said not to mention there are plenty of really good proven sires at that level. One of the mistakes that they made was letting the media make a big deal out of the feet issues. They simply talked too much. If you are staying in as a major stakeholder in a stallion the last thing you want is the media telling of the woes of your horses health over and over. There are quite a few major stallions that have gone to stud with far bigger issues than this horse has that you never heard about in the media.

75?! good god...is that what they really are trying to get??
and yeah, right now with farms reassessing fees, and people going cheaper with a lot of their mares, you don't want anyone looking at big brown and thinking worse of him then they would just based on him being a boundary. yeah, he won the derby...but so did giacomo, and he didn't get 75 grand--and i like holy bull better than boundary.
sunday silences conformation was pretty bad-it sure didn't hurt him in the end. but i'd think a poorly built horse would cause more hesitation than feet issues. how well is big brown put together anyway?