OK, I accept that Zellda was a different situation because, as far as anyone knows, there was a reason for her inactivity. It just seems to be this gray cloud that just sits there hanging over the whole operation. The lack of success with the first two runners, then the loss of a weanling filly and a 3-day-old colt, at least two lost foals in utero, and then an apparent injury derails any hope of a career. And, in the middle of all that over the last 12 years or so, the principle owners get divorced, each is remarried, and then one of them dies!Flanders wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:13 pm Zellda got injured at some point like midway through her 3yo year, at least that was what the rumors were, cause the connections never say anything(also I understand why they don't). I think it was shortly after her last work in June/July of her 3yo year, she was sent to a farm and then back to the track late that year but she just never posted a workout again. So she is different because there was an issue.
I'm not sure what is going on with Zilkha. That article I mentioned above when she was a newly turned 3yo, Shirreffs did say he had to keep stopping on her. I went and found the article just to double check the date and it was from January 2023. But since August she's been in steady training she just doesn't work that often. I don't know if that means she still can't hold up to more steady training or they are just being ultra conservative with her.
That's an awful lot of stuff for any outfit to survive!
