New speed badge for the mare Mightymo

[triplev123]

1:53.8...nice. Racing in great heart. You'd have to be pleased with that.

[mightymo]

Thanks VVV.

She has done a maginificent job. Not bad for a buyback!!

Prob only a handful more starts and then off to the USA to race before returning to Aust

[triplev123]

Straight to Yonkers and the Open Mares events. $$$$$ Ca-ching! Ca-ching! $$$$$

[Flashing Red]

Straight to Yonkers and the Open Mares events. $$$$$ Ca-ching! Ca-ching! $$$$$

Not before a start at the Big M or even Chester/Poconos to get a sub 1:50 mark!! :)

[David Summers]

Thanks VVV.

She has done a maginificent job. Not bad for a buyback!!

Prob only a handful more starts and then off to the USA to race before returning to Aust

When she returns from the US, all being well with her , are you thinking of further racing here or straight to stud? Any long range ideas what sire you would like to send her to after she retires?

[mightymo]

I am giving serious consideration to trying to flush an embryo this season before she leaves Aust.

Sires that spring to mind are RNR Hanover and Heaven and Art Major

When she returns from the USa she wont be racing here again. May even send her back in foal ....

[David Summers]

Have not seen her "live" , just on Sky Racing. Is she the typical size of the many CUF's , which can tend to be a bit on the small size. NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT!!

IMHO size means nothing , well at least not in harness racing :-)

I am a huge fan of CUF and he has produced many brilliant offspring , and long may be continue to do so.

[mightymo]

she is certainly not big. She has turned out into a lovely mare. At a guess id say 15.1

[David Summers]

All the best with her in the US Mo. Give 'em hell!

[mango]

CUF is fully booked in Aus and n.z so it goes to show size doesn't matter.

[triplev123]

CUF is fully booked in Aus and n.z so it goes to show size doesn't matter.

[VVV] Indeed Mango, indeed.
Sire size only ever seems to matter a great deal to the annual parade of bullshit artists who will go out of their way to find some way to put some sort of a knock on an at the time unproven horse that's to the smaller side of the mean.
The funniest part about that particular point of view espoused is when such horses subsequently become highly successful sires...because then, all of a sudden, rather miraculously they're thought to be plenty big enough.

[Flashing Red]

I don't see how having a difference of opinion makes someone a bullshit artist. I take the size of mares AND stallions into account and don't feel the need to put people down who disagree with me, unlike others do. I feel that when a smaller horse makes it it is a testament to just how much ability it has. Most of the grand circuit fields I've seen in the flesh, it isn't 50/50 ponies vs average/large sized horses that's for sure.

Nothing said here will change my mind, well maybe when people begin to come up to me saying that they are trying to breed for a pony that season. LOL! But not once have I put people down who disagree with me, yet I am constantly faced with comments, indirectly, on how either I or people with my mindset think size makes some sort of difference and what an idiot I must be to have such an opinion. :-S

[triplev123]

I don't see how having a difference of opinion makes someone a bullshit artist. I take the size of mares AND stallions into account and don't feel the need to put people down who disagree with me, unlike others do. I feel that when a smaller horse makes it it is a testament to just how much ability it has. Most of the grand circuit fields I've seen in the flesh, it isn't 50/50 ponies vs average/large sized horses that's for sure.

Nothing said here will change my mind, well maybe when people begin to come up to me saying that they are trying to breed for a pony that season. LOL! But not once have I put people down who disagree with me, yet I am constantly faced with comments, indirectly, on how either I or people with my mindset think size makes some sort of difference and what an idiot I must be to have such an opinion. :-S

[VVV] Present company excepted Flashing. ;)
If the truth be known that post was largely, ok pretty much totally, directed at a certain NZ scribe who, a few years ago now, rather infamously stated that Bettor's Delight was too small, that his first crop of yearlings to the sales down here were too small, that on that basis he was finished as a commercial sire though he never really started etc etc... and then, subsequent to them sweeping all before them the following year as 2yos they suddenly became, in the eyes of that same scribe, racey individuals that will be in high demand at the sales with the buyers.
The running with the Fox and hunting with the Hounds aspect to all that was of course not lost on me. :mad: That does indeed make a bullshit artist.

In addition to the above, you have to wonder how many moderately sized to smaller sized have to succeed before the old mates in the 'he's too small to make it as a sire' brigade finally put their cues in the rack and go away.
Off the top of my head, Abercrombie, Good Time, Western Hanover, Albatross, Courage Under Fire, Bettor's Delight, Village Jasper, Jate Lobell, Big Towner, Western Terror, etc. I'm sure there are swag more of them.
Lordship, Johnny Globe too.

[Flashing Red]

Hehe OK. :) We're looking at BD for a certain mare, she is HUGE, too huge. She always throws fillies too. With how good BD fillies go and his size to even out what a lump of a horse she is... fingers crossed :)