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07-10-2012, 07:02 PM
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Union Rags out for remainder of.. life
@DRFOakford: #UnionRags will miss balance of '12 season due to tendon injury, Russell Jones says. He just got word from trainer M Matz while at #julysale
@DRFOakford: Jones says #UnionRags owner evaluating options in light of tendon injury. @DRFOakford: #UnionRags team to provide statement 2moro a.m. detailing injury from vet Kathy Anderson at Fair Hill.
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07-10-2012, 07:33 PM
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unfortunate but overrated
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07-10-2012, 08:47 PM
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Well hell if IHA can generate 10 million....
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07-10-2012, 11:30 PM
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"Minor tendon injury" seems like an oxymoron. Unlike I'll Have Another, a horse like Union Rags has a vacuum to fill in the market after the death of his sire (and grandsire, Dixieland Band in the same year). No KY sons of Dixie Union in Bloodhorse's Stallion Register. Dixie Chatter's in CA for $5,000, but even though he's a G1 winning 2yo, it's not at the level of Union Rags who was very nearly a champion and then goes on to win the Belmont. High Cotton's in FL for $5,000.
UR's got a strong female family, he's physically impressive, and he's precocious but ran in the classics. I wish he had cracked a 100 Beyer, but 95 and 96 were his tops right? I'm sure Mrs. Wyeth would love to keep him going, but tendons are dicey propositions as we saw with IHA, and I don't see how a stud farm won't get a truck full of money backed up to the barn asap. Lane's End stood Dixie Union. You'd think they'd be interested here if they want a Dixie Union option in KY. They've got Grasshopper, but he's in Texas. Last edited by Merlinsky : 07-10-2012 at 11:44 PM.
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07-11-2012, 11:01 AM
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With a gun to my head and the choice of sending my mare to UR or IHA, everything else being equal, I'd probably roll the dice and go to IHA.
My thoughts are that UR is slightly more likely to be a useful stallion, but IHA has a much bigger chance of being a big time stallion. Mostly because UR has about a 0% chance of being huge.
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