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![]() From BH.....
The Green Monkey Dealt Setback; Will Not Start at Saratoga By Claire Novak The Green Monkey, this year's record-setting $16 million 2-year-old purchase, will not make his long-awaited debut at Saratoga Race Course, according to trainer Todd Pletcher. "The Green Monkey pulled a gluteal muscle in his last work [August 2] and will be off for a couple of weeks, just jogging," Pletcher said Monday. "Unfortunately, he won't run at Saratoga." The Green Monkey last breezed five furlongs in 1:03 2/5 over Saratoga's main track with retired Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero in the irons. He was pointing toward an undetermined race near the end of Saratoga's July 26-September 4 meet. Michael Tabor, John Magnier, and Derrick Smith bought The Green Monkey, named for a golf course in Barbados, at the Fasig-Tipton Calder 2-year-old in training sale February 28. |
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![]() We may have already seen the best from him on the racetrack.
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![]() He aint stupid...That horse was NEVER seeing Saratoga because the last thing you want him to do is lose first out....matter of fact, lose at all.
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![]() He'll be fine. . . they're just being cautious with him. . . I would be too if I had paid $16Mil for him
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