posted Oct 7, 2008

Zarkava is unlikely to make for a good broodmare - look at the mares in her family and the immediate mares on her sire's side.

Keep her in training please.

Jus read this comment from AP_McCoy What aload of rubbish this guy speaks!! (U just have to read the thread he ust posted to see that!!) She is one of the best bred fillies around, yes us as punters would love to see her around next year, but lets be honest if any one of us owned a breeding empire and made our money through horse breeding would we not want to get someone win the bloodline of her into the fields and breeding as quickly as possible??

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posted Oct 7, 2008

^ Do yourself a favour and look at the mares I have asked you to look at, then come back and tell me if they were great producers of champions or not. Exactly.

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posted Oct 8, 2008

Er... am i missing something here AP or has one of the mares u mention not produced Zark and she is arguably the champion of her generation! So yeas they are 'great roducers of champions'!!!

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posted Oct 13, 2008

Why would thy retire Zarcave? I'm a horse racing novice I don' mind admitting it so was wondering if anyone could tell me the thinking behind this?

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posted Oct 13, 2008

Money.

They will make a lot more from her going to stud ASAP than they can on the racecourse.

Also there is risk involved with racing (she could get an injury and have to be put down). There is very little risk in going to stud. Unless she was infertile, of course. Then we would see her racing again.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

i cant understand the money arguement. if she races for another year she would prob earn more than the one foal she will prodouce would sell for. her owner is not goin to sell her anyway so whats the point?

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posted Oct 13, 2008

sorry that should of said he wont sell the foal she produces.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

this is why flat racing is crap. arabs in it for the money, you get one year for the best horses and that's it. it's not a sport, it's a business.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

i dont think the arabs in horse-racing are short of a bob or 2.

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posted Nov 18, 2008

oh yes a hell of a horse 5-5
wins one of the biggest classic
g1s in the world defiently deserves it

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