Jan has been Discreet Cat's month

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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

I suppose Forestry didn't have a bad year last year with Shackleford winning the Preakness and all.

Had DC been retired at age 3 - as an undefeated phenom - with Bernardini - I bet he would have got supported a lot better.

Sheik Mohammed went on his most insane buying spree, and bought Street Sense, Hard Spun, and Any Given Saturday the folllowing year ... and while none of those horses could warm-up Discreet Cat on the race track, they all retired without seeing their form completely fall apart... and all retired at the same exact time.

Despite having Shackleford last year, Forestry's stud fee stayed exactly where it was in 2011 - at $12,500 - at a farm that can be pretty aggressive with stud fees. His AEI v. CI numbers (1.53 v. 2.46) are pretty weak.

I tend to agree with you that, had Discreet Cat gone to stud a year earlier, he may have had better support. That being said, didn't Henny Hughes go to Darley the same year as Bernardini, and he's pretty much ended up in the same position (starting at $40K and now standing for $12,500) as Discreet Cat.