The Green Monkey won't start at Saratoga after all

[pokeyman]

[QUOTE=JER;2191784]
The Green Monkey could try Arab racing. In the UK this year they’re allowing JC TBs to enter Arab races, ostensibly as a way to ease into their TB season. Arab races look like a bunch of runaway wind-up toys – I imagine a TB would look funny in this company.

Anyhow, I just want the Green Monkey’s connections to consider all opportunities to get this expensive piece of horseflesh on a race track.[/QUOTE]

Oh, really. We race Arabians as well as thoroughbreds and I would NOT consider them a bunch of wind up toys. They are the original racehorse which all thoroughbreds trace too. They show the same heart, class, and talent that they passed on to the thoroughbreds. However, they are sounder, prettier, and generally show more stamina. They are ATHLETES and not “wind up toys”.

[Linny]

Since Coolmore and the arab interests are in a battle for racing dominance, I doubt that TGM will ever race in an arab country.

[Linny]

@lizathenag;2169973

I’ll take that bet. Who will hold my $2 until the first Saturday in May? My other $2 is going for Any Given Sat as soon as the future book opens. . .

You can get down on “Saturday” in Vegas right now. The "Monkey bet, I’m still willing to book.

[Glimmerglass]

His nomination or rather the absense of it as also noted by others …

Courier Journal 2-4-07 “Record 450 nominated for Triple Crown races”

Pletcher had a record 38 nominations last year, the fourth straight year he topped the list. One Pletcher-trained colt who is not nominated is The Green Monkey, whose $16 million price last year is the most ever for a horse at auction. He is training in California and has yet to race.

Sure “in training” … to become a lead pony at this stage in the game

[Glimmerglass]

He’s back … in training!

BloodHorse Mar 13, 2007

The Green Monkey shattered the world record for a Thoroughbred sold at public auction when he brought $16 million at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of 2-year-olds in training at Calder Race Course. But the son of Forestry hasn’t made much news since Irish agent Demi O’Byrne bought him on behalf of Coolmore Stud managing partner John Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith.

The Green Monkey joined the stable of multiple Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher in April, then went to Saratoga in late July. After the colt breezed five furlongs in 1:03 2⁄5 in early August at Saratoga, Pletcher reported the colt had pulled a gluteal muscle. He has not raced yet.

“He is at Ashford Stud (Coolmore’s Kentucky division) recovering from a muscle injury; we’re hoping he’ll go back in training with Todd Pletcher in a few weeks,” said a Coolmore spokesman.

Obviously the Kentucky Derby is not going to happen for his resume …

[kenwoodallpromos]

His resume’

[QUOTE=Glimmerglass;2284251]
He’s back … in training!

BloodHorse Mar 13, 2007

Obviously the Kentucky Derby is not going to happen for his resume …[/QUOTE]

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What is currently on his resume’ other than his 1f auction work?

[Linny]

I’m still booking that bet. :lol:

[Glimmerglass]

[QUOTE=kenwoodallpromos;2284583]
What is currently on his resume’ other than his 1f auction work?[/QUOTE]

On his resume is frequent flyer miles: he’s gone from Belmont to Saratoga to Santa Anita to Kentucky and places in between. For a horse with no starts, no known gate permit, and a hefty tab to work off he’s certainly been carted around to lot of top race tracks

I dare say that not since The Beautiful Jim Key has there been a horse generating more interest who has never actually raced. Although you have to give Jim props: he could read, write, and count!

Hey wait a minute - “GM, what is 1 + 1?”

[Linny]

Unles that horse can count to 16 million, he’s not worth the time of day!

[lizathenag]

[QUOTE=Linny;2284979]
I’m still booking that bet. :lol:[/QUOTE]

It’s looking like a good bet for you!

[Iride]

I wouldn’t try hard to perform for my people either if they named me the Green Monkey :no:

[Glimmerglass]

Dear Green Monkey,

Sorry you couldn’t make it to Louisville on May 5th, perhaps we’ll see you on the track some day. The world needs outrider horses too …

Your friend,
(and likely Kentucky Derby starter bought for $9,000)
Teuflesburg

The New York Times 5-1-07 "Money for Nothing on Triple Crown Trail "

Excerpt:

These are the wealthy wannabe kings of the modern-day sport who each year spend hundreds of millions of dollars on yearlings and 2-year-olds trying to buy a horse capable of delivering the glory and return on investment that would come with owning the stallion that sweeps all three American classics. Of the 35 most expensive colts from this year’s 3-year-old crop purchased at public auction, only the $1.5 million Cowtown Cat is still on track for the quest. And his early odds are 20-1 in the Derby. This means the other $88.5 million spent on 34 others may be hard to recover.

[Linny]

Too bad no one was sap enough to take that bet.:lol:

I guess “The Green Monkey’s” Derby will be run with TGM in absentia. Tell Teuflesbeg that pony horses need strong hind quarters, so TGM better start doing some squats or something.

[skatepixie]

Shall we remove “at saratoga” from the thread title?

[Glimmerglass]

[i]Dear Teuflesberg

Thank you for your note. Here at camp things are all good - I get to sleep, eat and do different exercises. Do you know what a breeze is? After two years of working on them I do them pretty well. Never seen a lead pony yet but that job seems kinda cool. Congratulations on going to the Derby and getting the 10th gate. My trainer says that was a pretty good pick.

Your pal,
The Green Money [sic][/i]

ESPN May 2, 2007 “Green with Derby envy?”

So what could have been more shrewdly purchased with that $16 million in “Monkey” business?

All 20 of this year’s Kentucky starters would cost much, much less. Based on actual auction prices and estimates on the homebreds, maybe about 13 million give or take a few bags of feed.

[Linny]

Remember, The Green Money has a phobia about the gate. That appears to the origin of his …difficulties.

[Dazednconfused]

[QUOTE=Linny;2407596]
Remember, The Green Money has a phobia about the gate. That appears to the origin of his …difficulties.[/QUOTE]

Freudian Slip? :winkgrin: :lol:

[Cammie]

Ouch

Pletcher’s assistant trainer certainly doesn’t like The Green Monkey. I’d love to see what The Green Monkey’s full brother looks like. I wonder if his new owners even know who their horse is related to. :lol:

http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news?slug=jo-greenmonkey050407&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[Glimmerglass]

He has returned to training …

The Green Monkey back on the worktab
BloodHorse June 18, 2007

THE GREEN MONKEY (Forestry), who was sold for a world-record $16 million as a two-year-old in training last year, returned to the worktab at Belmont Park on Sunday [JUNE 17]. Now an unraced three-year-old, the Todd Pletcher trainee strolled three furlongs in :38 3/5 on the fast track at Belmont Park. He was posting his first official move since last October, when he was sidelined by a gluteal muscle injury.

The Florida-bred bay made headlines around the world at the Fasig-Tipton Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale in February 2006, becoming the most expensive Thoroughbred ever sold at public auction. Demi O’Byrne made the winning bid on behalf of a Coolmore partnership comprising John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith.

Named for a golf course in Barbados, The Green Monkey was sent to Pletcher. He recorded his first breeze last May at Belmont and continued to work until August. Returning to the worktab in October, The Green Monkey turned in four timed moves at Belmont before being shelved. He was given plenty of time to recover at Ashford Stud, Coolmore’s American facility, near Versailles, Kentucky, and recently rejoined Pletcher’s brigade.

The Green Monkey was produced by the winning Unbridled mare Magical Masquerade, who is a half-sister to multiple Grade 2 queen Magicalmysterycat (Storm Cat). His second dam is multiple Grade 2 victress Nannerl (Valid Appeal).

[Where_sMyWhite]

Glimmerglass… don’t know quite enough about racing to know if :38 3/5 is a good time for a first official move in 8 months - I know it’s not real fast in general but for his length of layoff is it still slow or pretty respectable (the comment from BH makes me think still pretty slow ).