blodwyn1
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Highlight of today watching from my hospital bed! What an amazing mare.
Not very judgemental are you !She's a fabulous racemare but I imagine she will be a poor producer at the paddocks, and that is why I think they have allowed her run at five. She is bred 2X3 to Sadlers Well plus an additional line to Northern Dancer and an extra one to his sire Nearctic. She is also a big masculine type and historically they don't throw good racehorses. It will be difficult to breed foals that are not even more incredibly inbred than she is.
She's amazing and clearly hates to lose, such a do or die attitude, I love her! Slightly off topic but what are people's thoughts on trainers having several horses in a race when some of them clearly don't have a chance and are there either to set the race up to help their stablemate or to try to make the race run in a way that would make it more difficult for the favourite?
Haha! Clodagh, I only watch the occasional flat race, just so I know the top horses. I was recording today but it started to rain here at 3pm so I had to stop gardening and therefore could watch live.
I was actually shouting at the tv, which doesn’t happen often. In a bound, I had three dogs on my lap!
Was it just me or did she look slightly off when she was trotting at the end?
I'd like to know what happens to all these horses Ballydoyle "sacrifice" as pacemakers at the end of their careers. I know Bullet Train who was used for Frankel went to stud but AOB seems to use them left right and centre I wonder what happens to them when they finish racing
I would expect they go the way of a lot of ex-race horses at the end of their careers when they are no longer useful......
ccl ... glad you said that because i thought i was seeing things, i am so fixated on checking if animals are lame or not right, i was even checking pumbah in the lion king but he was sound!!!! great film BTW...
How is she related to Frankel? That could inject more speed into the offspring and she would add stamina.
Years ago the same happened with northern dancer bloodlines. Welsh cob breeders go very close in bloodlines what we call in breeding they call line breeding! I am glad if TB breeders try and avoid it.