$100M Reasons Not to Run
Estimated combined price Darley paid for Street Sense, Hard Spun and Any Given Saturday: $100 million (TDN). Sheikh Mohammed's stable has also scooped up European runners Teofilo and Authorized, and this past weekend, Arc-bound Manduro and a percentage of Invincible Spirit. "The extent of his outlay in his quest for potent future stallions is unprecedented," marvels Julian Muscat in the Times, "even in a bloodstock world fuelled by the petro-dollar."
Posted by JC, Aug 22, 2007 08:30 AM
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Posted by J.S., Aug 24, 2007 06:57 PM
Beyer was ripped by the organization men after the BC last year for saying it, but I'll echo the sentiment in a gentle way: It's unseemly.