From what I've seen of him I'm betting that BAF would go three parts nuts after a couple of weeks R & R. He's got a terrific constitution & you can bet your last dollar that the horse is one of those wonderful buggers that just LOVES to be in the stable environment in work & competing, that's how he rolls, that's what makes him the great racehorse he is. Golden Reign was like that too. They put him in a paddock and all he did was walk & walk & walk the fences. The bigger the paddock the further he walked. Retiring BAF could easily be mentally harder on the horse than keeping him going could ever be physically.