Gimmethegreenlight retires to stud

He is retiring to stud....tendon injury......sad day for SA racing as he was about to travel the world but a great scoop for SA breeding as he will be standing here.

Another of my CTC selections gone :X

Before he embarrassed himself.... he is good, very good but no super dooper star
Maybe I am just bitter cause Variety club gave him a klap at K to put me out of all my bets. <

Well done to all the connections. Hope he produces many stakes winners for them(tu)

Phil Wrote:

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> Another of my CTC selections gone :X
GMTGL and belive it Taipan, but the way he ran the other day I am not hopefull that he will win anything significant

GMTGL is a beautifull looking specimen,i love the picture of him jumping up on the beach that Hibby had on our front page.It is sad that people are upset,and are having a go because they had him in a competition.Spare a thought to the owners that have lost a champion due to a injury,plus what a huge blow as this horse had the pedigree to be another champion in SA,as his proven in such a short time.

People had a go at cape trainers for not raiding the highveld,justin does it and he gets dancer's daughter and now this..as for was he top class or not? How many 3yos win the queens plate? He was top top draw

That horse will be a good sire

JustinV Wrote:

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> People had a go at cape trainers for not raiding
> the highveld,justin does it and he gets dancer's
> daughter and now this..as for was he top class or
> not? How many 3yos win the queens plate? He was
> top top draw


Dancers Daughter,Run for It and GMTGL all had their careers ended up there....interesting?

When all that debate was going on I remember posting that Joey Ramsden had mentioned that he was loath to raid the highveld ..........when he had done so in the past ,even successfully ,the horses had not retur.
ned to their old selves.
It certainly seems to have a very high risk factor
Interesting that Highveld horses also do not have a good record raiding Cape Town and yet both do OK in Natal.......it seems that the fairest test of horses competing against each other,from around the country ,is in Durban.

Also messed up my ctc, but a top race horse, hope he does well at stud.

Great pity.

Look at Bravura, goes to Joburg and isn't the same horse. Tales of Bravery also tried the highveld and couldn't feature.

After a tough Cape Town summer I've always thought sending horses to Joburg is too much too soon, especially for a 3 year old. Yes there's been the odd success story but I would rather give my horse a nice break and have a go at the Durban season.

Btw who was the last 3 year old to win the Queens Plate before GMTGL?