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    Cheltenham Gold Cup

    The big race! Can Kauto Star overcome the odds to win this race for a 3rd time as a 12 year old or will Long Run confirm superiority? Or maybe just maybe we'll see a new name on the king of chasers trophy!

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    AP wins on Synchronised....... one of only 4 horses that no-one backed

    Poor old Kauto got pulled up early on Doubt if we'll ever see him on the track ever again........ sad day

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy View Post
    Poor old Kauto got pulled up early on Doubt if we'll ever see him on the track ever again........ sad day
    but he'll enjoy the rest of his days studding

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    Quote Originally Posted by redred View Post
    but he'll enjoy the rest of his days studding
    He's a Gelding just like every other horse in national hunt racing


    They generally geld racehorses at 3/4 years old, they're no use as racehorses after that age if they still have balls Most of the top flat horses are put out to stud at 3 or 4 years old (like Sea The Stars a couple years back - won everything as a 3 year old then sold his stud rights for Millions)

    Put it this way - a Kauto Star with cock and balls intact could earn £100m in stud fees but only around £2m in race winnings (he's won more money than any other horse in NH racing), they would have retired him years ago if he could shoot

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    Sea The Stars

    His retirement was announced on 13 October 2009 by trainer John Oxx.[11][12]

    On October 27, 2009, it was announced that Sea The Stars would stand at the Aga Khan's Gilltown Stud in Ireland. The 2008 Prix De l'Arc de Triomphe winner Zarkava was among the first mares booked to be covered by him.[13]
    Sea The Stars

    On March 6, 2010, it was announced that Sea The Stars had his first five mares checked in foal. Among those is Zarkasha of the unbeaten Zarkava. The other notable mares includes Bordighera - dam 2000 Guineas winner George Washington, the 2009 winner of the Darley Prix Jean Romanet (Fr-I) Alpine Rose, Centreofattention, a full sister to Irish Group 1 winner Holy Roman Emperor, and Seward’s Folly, the dam of Group 2 winner Sayif.

    As of July 2010, Sea The Stars has covered 140 mares.

    On January 23 2011, it was reported that two days previously his first foal had been born to the Australian horse Centreofattention at Castlebridge Stud in Ireland. The owner of Castlebridge Stud said "We are delighted to have had the first Sea the Stars foal born, he looks a smashing colt with plenty of size and scope."[14]

    He currently stands for €85,000.
    85k per ride, nice work if you can get it Thats £11.9m he's earned already......

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