The Green Monkey is retired!
...and after only three non-winning starts. Even better, he will be standing at stud here in Florida at the same farm that sold him for the record breaking price of $16 million.
So let's recap: the horse's claim to fame is running 1/8th of a mile in 9.8 seconds and selling for an over-rated $16 million dollars. That's it. All the hype and the horse has lived up to NONE of it.
and now for my favorite quote by Randy Hartley:
“He got hurt as a two-year-old at Churchill [Downs], and he never was the same. He pulled his hamstring and it ended up being something in his neck eventually that retired him, but he looks fantastic. We go for a good looking individual, and the people who breed to the stallions at our farm want a good looking individual.”
Something in his neck? Brilliant... I can't wait to see the mediocrity passed on in the breeding market.
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I wonder what his stud fee will be? Is breeding and looks enough to ask for big money? Shouldn't his failed career as a racehorse give him a little discount?
that funky monkey
is mediocracy a word?
'mediocracy' is a condition in which culture is subordinated to pseudo-egalitarian ideology. Symptoms include: dumbing, jargonism, infantilisation, vacuity, phoney democratisation and authoritarianism.
A key weapon of the mediocratic agenda is the Orwellian redefinition of words and ideas.
That's in quotes, of course.
And does Chris even like me anymore?
Mediocracy sounds exactly like what we have. AMy? The name sounds familiar...
Amy, Chris is so over the Smith girls.
should I have said mediocre-ness?
mediocrity
no one ever gets over the smith girls
my deepest, heart-felt apologies.
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