What's going on with the Green Monkey?

Question

Do you think that the name 'Green Monkey' may someday be used as a term to describe a horrendously over priced purchase?

Answer 1

it should be especially since his been retired to stud. wow what a waste of money. but as long as gas is $3.00 a gallon am sure the saudis will keep the price of horses going up.I know the saudis don't own him but who do you think drive the prices of horses up . and it was in the form that he is retired

Answer 2

He's by Forestry so he is unsound as h**l, just like the rest of them.  His "pulled muscle" must not be healing too well.  He is owned by the Irish, not the Saudis, and I have not heard he's been retired to stud.  He has no value as a stud anyways, horses like him are a dime a dozen, it wouldn't matter if he started or not, tell me how many unraced horses are syndicated for anything close to $16 million, you can buy a graded winner for $1-2mil or less in some cases.  Ashford will not be syndicating or standing him if he doesn't win a Stakes race.  Whether he starts once or not he will end up in Nebraska standing for $1,500.  His pedigree is pretty bad, not much blacktype in there at all, aside from his dams half sister, which is nowhere close to enough to make him a stud based on pedigree.

Answer 3

a few guys got carried away with the bidding, it happens...the last time it happened was over 20 years ago with seattle dancer a son of Nijinsky II (13.1 million) who did sire 10 grade 1 winners no champions, then snaafi dancer a couple of years before him (10.3M) a horse who couldnt run a yard and produced only 4 offspring...hey as long as guys have more money than they can burn, then someone will be spending what seems like ridiculous amounts for horses (the sheiks did well buying the first two finishers in the breeders cup classic last year, Invasor who looks like he could be handicap horse of the year this year also if handled well)

Answer 4

I had inside information last fall about him and knew that there was no way he'd ever race.  He was injured beyond hope of a cure.

Had he raced once, and didn't win, his value at stud would have been slashed by over 90%.  So by not racing him, the owners can recoup most of their money by syndicating him for stud duty based upon his pedigree.