Essential Quality wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:57 am
Rather people want to hear it or not or don’t pay attention, if he is genuinely healthy and sound there is good chance he comes back. Lately Repoles been running his top horses more, bringing back horses instead of rushing them off to stud. Him running Crupi as much as he has when that horse is just getting better and there’s a 90% chance he comes back at 5. Him buying Nest for 6 Million like he said he would 4 months earlier and actually tried bringing her back, you know it’s not just a case of saying he would or not given they posted videos of her working and there was a genuine injury. Not to mention there’s a very good chance he could have just up and retired Mindframe because no doubt he would get a stud deal the way the market has been but he’s also bringing him back. He’s kept his word about his horses if it’s been possible.
Also, Fierceness isn’t just some high dollar horse to him clearly if you hear the way he talks about that horse or just looks at him, it’s more then a top owners love for a top horse and granted the history of the pedigree and his dams sides names and being a 3rd generation homebred there’s a lot of sentimental stuff there to.
And given they discussed Breeding rights when he was a 2 year old and about racing him on at 4 with Coolmore having half the rights, it’s a LOT like the situation with Maximum Security when they bought into him and he ran all of 2020. And the wests aren’t exactly shy about shipping a horse off the stud anywhere.
It’s probably a 50/50 chance he retires on Sunday if he loses, 95% chance if he wins. If he does win and they keep him around at 4 he will be a great horse granted his last 2 races he’s put it together.
Mindframe and Crupi didn't have G1s, but I agree with you that the probability isn't zero. Half the stuff Repole says is deranged, while the other half shows greater insight into the sport's problems than any other owner, so at some level I'm sure he's aware of how much a horse with success at 2, 3, and 4 would stand out in today's sport. I'm certainly not going to get my hopes up, but perhaps the temptation to see one's homebred in the Hall of Fame could override the desire for more money, just this once?
