You can see the race on calracing.com for free. I don’t know anything about those that passed him but I thought he looked better than he has in the past.
Agreed! My guy ran only 4 times total and won almost $20000 (1 win, 1 third)… :yes:
Geez, guys. At least he isn’t three starts and $0. That’s all I meant. :rolleyes:
Funny, many very successful race horses take many starts before they hit their peak. Obvious ones - like Seabiscuit - their stories are well known and rather rare. But consider a truly great west coast sprinter of the past couple of years, Greg’s Gold, who admittedly ran well below his potential at the Breeders Cup this year. Did not even begin to fire in his first race - horrible, in fact, he beat one horse by a narrow margin, a horse that never raced again. Three more MSW starts before he won - he may have won a little more money than TGM by that time but, nonetheless…I certainly won’t write off many horses that run consistently in their first few races without winning.
Forget the price tag, if you can.
Impatience…may get the better of the owners of TGM. Incidentally, I hear from my SO (who currently has a job in the receiving barn at Hollywood Park) that TGM really is a pain to deal with…not just gates he has an issue with! He joked that he’d make a nice gelding. Hmm, not likely…me thinks.
It’s been a little over 2 months since TGM’s last race. Has anyone heard anything about him since then? Is he on the worktab anywhere?
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Last recorded workout was Hollywood Park Dec 9, 2007
5F in 0:58.60 on their all-weather track
Since then nothing …
Oh no, did Pletcher lose him again? Those $16 million horses can be so hard to keep tabs on. :lol:
He probably entered himself in the witness protection program.
Retired…
to stud :eek: 
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Is that a guess, or did they really retire him? Just curious since it is so late in the season to start a new stallion. Most mares already have contracts.
Nope. He’s retired - but won’t cover mares till 2009.
And to top it all off, he’s going to the farm that sold him for the $16 million.
http://drf.com/news/article/92215.html
None of this makes sense. Why not get him a win at a lesser track? (Hell, he could be a SW at some tracks.) Why not breed their own mares to him THIS year? If he’s so unsound that he can’t run any longer, why breed him?
Wow, that is amazing. They should breed him to quarter horses.
He’s got quite a hefty bar bill to pay off … add in the training costs, oats and other feed, vet bills, farrier costs, shipping fees to Spa and California …
The Green Monkey only raced three times, all last year at age 3, and finished third once and fourth twice, earning just $10,240.
:eek::eek::eek:
What an embarrassment but I guess not a huge suprise.
Methinks we’ll be seeing him standing in the midwest or on a plane to South America in the not-so-distant future… (2010?) Being overpriced isn’t enough to cut it even in Florida.
And since when is 4 days before the sheds open “too late” to cover any mares?
Although worth pointing out that while Storm Cat was a G1 winner it’s not like his performance on the track was really worthy of more then a paragraph in the DRF, let alone a chapter or [when he was a stud leader] an entire book about 
So I’m sure it will be sold something to the song and dance number that “TGM has brilliant bloodlines and had it not been for a training accident (the pulled glutes) he would’ve been a very fine runner. So now is your chance to get your mare bred to a son of Forestry and whose dam sire was Unbridled at a fantastic discount …”
What’s the guess on his stud fee?
the Green Money has average breeding at best. His dam has thrown nothing and sire Forestry has had a couuple of nice horses but nothing “elite” by any standard. They are also notoriously unsound.
I am not at all shocked. This colt was a disaster from the start. Goodbye The Green Money, we hardly knew ye…
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How about they pay you $100 and give you a week’s time share at their condo in Barbados?
Wasn’t his great work supposed to have come by way of rotary galloping?
Who would want to breed to that?
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HaHaHaHa. You should also get a pony ride on him so you can feel 16 million between your legs!
