What % decrease in stud value do you suggest if he was syndicated last year until waiting until this year? 50%? Which 3 year old pacer would you breed to next year for free if given the chance?
To answer your first question.....it would be massive! With the numbers that were being thrown around last year (no, not the nonsense/BS here, but at the sales, by some of the big farms who were courting the connections of BJ), it would have been a debacle of a deal. If BJ was syndicated last year, it wouldn't be the first time a bust happened. It's happened before. No one was a bigger fan of BJ than me. I thought he had the potential to be truly a great horse-----one that could, potentially, go down as one of the great ones-----but I wasn't making that a fait accompli. Unfortunately, this year the horse simply didn't come back as expected, hoped, etc., he got sick, the rest of the class caught up to him, he didn't keep progressing, and so on. As far as your second question.....zero
. I am not impressed anywhere near enough with any 3yo this year to breed a mare to next year. I don't see any real, legitimate, major stallions out there in this year's crop.
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