Where is The Green Monkey?

Question

I know the correct answer, but 10 points to the first person who guesses :)

Answer 1

Ashford Stud Farm in Kentucky. Though he's not standing at stud.

My second answer: Ireland ?

Answer 2

Lay-up at Ashford Stud in Woodford County.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs...

$16 million dollars...

Answer 3

The Green Monkey Stabled at Churchill Downs

Date Posted: April 7, 2006

Last Updated: April 19, 2006

Triple Crown candidates won't be the only famous horses at Churchill Downs this spring. The Green Monkey, who sold for the world record price of $16 million earlier this year, arrived at trainer Todd Pletcher's Churchill barn Friday.

"We don't really have a schedule," Pletcher said. "We just got him in, and he hasn't really been doing too much since the sale. We'll just take it day by day and get him into a steady program and let him tell us when he's ready."

Irish agent Demi O'Byrne purchased the Forestry -- Magical Masquerade colt on the behalf of John Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith at the Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of 2-year-olds in training at Calder Race Course. Randy Hartley and Dean De Renzo consigned him to the auction after purchasing him for $425,000 at the 2005 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select yearling sale.

The Green Monkey's $16-million price eclipsed the previous record bid of $13.1 million for Seattle Dancer at the Keeneland July Sale in 1985.

"I would say he's certainly the most anticipated arrival we've ever had," said Pletcher. "It goes without saying that we'll be under a lot more scrutiny with a horse like that, but at the end of the day you've got to treat him like the rest of them. Otherwise, you'll drive yourself crazy."

** added 5/25:

WHERE IT WENT WRONG

The Green Monkey's owners put the horse in the hands of Pletcher, who has yet to win the Kentucky Derby but is widely considered among the best trainers in the world. His work with The Green Monkey started in Kentucky, also site of the first glitch. During a morning gallop at Churchill Downs, the horse got spooked while workers set up tents for the 2006 Kentucky Derby and the exercise rider fell off as the horse bolted.

De Renzo said he talked to witnesses who said the horse fell on its neck. Not true, said Michael McCarthy, an assistant trainer with Pletcher who said the only thing that hit the ground was the rider.

But the horse failed to produce any remarkable workouts and, after about a month of training in Kentucky, was shipped to New York. There, he ended up under the watch of Pletcher's assistant, Berry. He greeted the horse with enthusiasm tempered by skepticism.

"No horse is worth $16 million," he said earlier this week. Berry sounds even more convinced of that after watching The Green Monkey train in New York for almost three months before being sent to Ashford Stud, a farm in Kentucky owned by Coolmore. That's where the horse remains.

"The horse really didn't have any problems," Berry said. "He just didn’t show to be fast enough to run in a maiden race to where he was going to win. And if you were going to run him, that would have been the only result that would have been good enough."

Sanan, who bred the horse, said he regretted selling the horse when he heard about the $16 million purchase price. But since then, his perspective has changed. Turns out The Green Monkey had a full brother bred by Sanan, who says he has no idea where that horse now is.

"Gave it to a lady who looks after a farm for retired horses," he said, adding of that horse and The Green Monkey, "Both turned out to be duds."

Retirement could be where The Green Monkey is headed before his once-promising career even begins.

"Even if he comes back and wins some races, he ain't going to be worth much," Sanan said. "He'll be lucky if he's worth $1 million."

The ultimate payoff would have come after winning the Derby or a Triple Crown race. Top stallions command a stud fee of more than $300,000. With that in mind, Coolmore reportedly paid $60 million to $70 million for Fusaichi Pegasus after the horse that sold for $4 million as a yearling won the 2000 Kentucky Derby.

It's hard to imagine The Green Monkey ever will command a six-figure stud fee, assuming he ever races.

While The Green Monkey remains on the farm, Pletcher is busy at Churchill Downs, trying to get in position to win a Triple Crown race that would validate his reputation. Berry, who monitored the progress of the $16 million horse in New York, sounded excited about that prospect and, without a trace of irony, said, "It'll be nice to get that monkey off our backs."

Answer 4

The $16-million record-priced Forestry colt purchased by Coolmore Stud at the Fasig-Tipton Calder 2-year-old sale in January has now been named The Green Monkey. Irish-based Coolmore has connections with a golf course in Barbados named The Green Monkey.  Thats all I could find..lol...

Answer 5

No published works as of yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say Saratoga, things are still pretty quiet there now, might be a good place to get him going without a bunch of people watching his every move.

I'm guessing that I might have been close and will revert back to my original thought when I read the question, which is Belmont

Also I thought that article about him was pretty bad, I don't think too many people expected a Forestry who works in 9 and change to be a shoe in for the Derby