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Been Retired:

Justify will now start a new life as a stallion at Coolmore America in Versailles
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American Triple Crown winner Justify has been retired from racing.

The announcement came Wednesday following several weeks of speculation about his racing future after disclosure the three-year-old son of Scat Daddy had suffered recurring bouts of fluid filling in his left ankle following his Triple-Crown-securing win in the June 9 Belmont Stakes.

Trainer Bob Baffert was assigned the difficult task of breaking the disappointing news in a press release issued by the Champion’s connections:

“Justify had some filling in his ankle, and he is just not responding quick enough for a fall campaign,” wrote Baffert. “We all wanted to see Justify run again, but ultimately it is my responsibility to make sure he is perfect. Without 60 to 90 days, I cannot be definite (he can run).”

The 60-to-90-day time period is in response to Justify’s hoped-for entry in either the  August 18 Pacific Classic at Santa Anita, the August 25 Travers at Saratoga or the September 22 Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing near Philadelphia. Justify had already been ruled out for this Sunday’s Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park, New Jersey.

One or more of these races would have served as preparation for the ultimate goal of the Breeders’ Cup Classic November 3 at Churchill Downs, the site of his Kentucky Derby win enroute to the Triple Crown.

Justify is currently owned by WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners and Starlight Racing. He is reportedly the recipient of a $75 million breeding agreement with Ireland-based Coolmore Breeding to stand in stud at its breeding facility in Kentucky beginning in January and perhaps shuttle to Australia for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season beginning in July. Details of the agreement have not been made public.

“He is an incredible horse, and we are very disappointed he can’t run again,” said WinStar Farm owner Kenny Troutt. “All things happen for a reason, and we are blessed to have raced him to be the 13th Triple Crown winner in history.”

His retirement opens the question of his historical place among Thoroughbred Champions.

He vanquished the so-called Curse of Apollo, becoming the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby since Apollo in 1882 after not having raced as a two-year-old. He went on to win the muddiest Kentucky Derby in recorded history by 2 1/2 lengths over Good Magic and Audible on May 5, and an equally muddy and fog-enshrouded Preakness at Pimlico in Baltimore May 19 by a half length over Bravazo and Tenfold before securing his place in history as the 13th Triple Crown winner at Belmont on June 9, beating Gronkowski and Hofburg.

Justify retires with a record of 6-0-0 and $3.78 million in earnings.

Beyond his legacy, there is the intriguing immediate question of his ranking in this year’s American Eclipse Awards, to be announced January 24, 2019 at Gulfstream Park, Florida.

Considered a shoe-in for Horse of the Year (HOY) as a Triple Crown winner, his retirement may open the door to other horses continuing to campaign through the summer and fall, most notably overall 8-1 and undefeated in 2018 Monomy Girl.

The popular Tapizar filly has won the G1 Kentucky Oaks, the filly complementary to the Kentucky Derby; the G1 CCA Oaks at Saratoga, the G1 Acorn Stakes at Belmont, the G1 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland and the G2 Rachel Alexandra Stakes at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, LA.

Trained by Brad H. Cox, she is now expected to contend against males sometime during the fall racing season to burnish her HOY chances.






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Its call Boutique Breeding...

Sire Scat Daddy retired as a 3YO after the 2007 Kentucky Derby because of an injury.

Grand Sire Johannesburg, champion as a 2YO but failed in Kentucky Derby and Golden Jubilee. Retired as a 3YO.

Great Grand Sire Hennessy, was also a brilliant 2YO winning twice at Saratoga and 2nd in the Breeder's Cup Juvenile. Retired as a 3YO never running a race at that age.

Great Great Grand Sire Storm Cat - only ran  8 times. Had a injury plagued career and never ran as a 4YO. But his stud fee was $500,000 later in his career. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

You start to see a pattern. Justify will be just a continuum of the blazing stars with brilliant offspring that will not run past their 3YO career.
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Very interesting analysis Brudder.
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Yes, interesting seeing the facts put  straight before you like that. Thumbs Up Wonder will he shuttle ?   Got to womder how Scat Daddys would go here, even tho they do well in the US.

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FWIW the two Scat Daddy sires I can find in Oz never raced beyond 3, in which season their performances were inferior to those at 2.  
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Are those the 2 at Coolmore, SC  ?   They are the only 2 I can find, which makes one think Coolmore are trying to keep the SDs to themselves ?
Brudder makes a good point with his above summation of the sire line.
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Originally posted by Brudder_A Brudder_A wrote:

Its call Boutique Breeding...

Sire Scat Daddy retired as a 3YO after the 2007 Kentucky Derby because of an injury.

Grand Sire Johannesburg, champion as a 2YO but failed in Kentucky Derby and Golden Jubilee. Retired as a 3YO.

Great Grand Sire Hennessy, was also a brilliant 2YO winning twice at Saratoga and 2nd in the Breeder's Cup Juvenile. Retired as a 3YO never running a race at that age.

Great Great Grand Sire Storm Cat - only ran  8 times. Had a injury plagued career and never ran as a 4YO. But his stud fee was $500,000 later in his career. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

You start to see a pattern. Justify will be just a continuum of the blazing stars with brilliant offspring that will not run past their 3YO career.



Just re reading this.    Is this a sire line that produces unsound horses ?     its sure looking like it ??   Speedy squibs that break down early ?    Hmmmm, why would you breed to this line ?   Looking at the stats Brudder has given us ??  
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The emphasis has been on the race ability of the breed. Think outside the square a little bit. How have the mares from the sire lines mentioned gone here in Aust? Storm cat, Hennessy, Johannesberg. D
Have any made an impact if the progeny of this sideline only last 12 months on the track?
My opinion, all have been flops as Sires and broodmare sires. So why should we be holding our breath to hear "the best of the line", "best performed of the line", "most prepotent of sirelines"?
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I hear Henry Field has announced that Justify will stand at Newgate next year. 
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Coolmore will shuttle two Triple Crown winners to Australia for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season, with the unbeaten Justify joining American Pharoah on the journey from Ashford Stud in Kentucky to Jerrys Plains, New South Wales.

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Coolmore will stand 3 triple crown winners this year.
American Pharoah, Justify, and Pierro.
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Justify Failed a Drug Test Before Winning the Triple Crown
Bob Baffert guided Justify to the 2018 Triple Crown, but a month before the Kentucky Derby, the horse failed a drug test that could have ended that campaign before it began.



By Joe Drape

On June 9, 2018, a colt named Justify thundered home to the full-throated cheers of a capacity crowd to win the 150th running of the Belmont Stakes and claim horse racing’s Triple Crown, one of the most storied achievements in sports.

It was the perfect ending to an improbable journey for a talented horse, his eclectic ownership group, and his Hall of Fame trainer, Bob Baffert.

Only a few people, however, knew the secret that Baffert carried with him into the winner’s circle that day: Justify had failed a drug test weeks before the first race in the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby. That meant Justify should not have run in the Derby, if the sport’s rules were followed.

They were not, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. Instead of the failed drug test causing a speedy disqualification, the California Horse Racing Board took more than a month to confirm the results. Then, instead of filing a public complaint as it usually does, the board made a series of decisions behind closed doors as it moved to drop the case and lighten the penalty for any horse found to have the banned substance that Justify tested positive for in its system.
By then, Justify had become just the 13th Triple Crown winner in the last 100 years, and his owners had sold his breeding rights for $60 million.

Only a handful of racing officials and people connected to Justify knew about the failed drug test, which occurred April 7, 2018, after Justify won the Santa Anita Derby. He tested positive for the drug scopolamine, a banned substance that veterinarians say can enhance performance, especially in the amount that was found in the horse.

Justify was undefeated at the time, but he still needed to finish first or second in the Santa Anita Derby to qualify for the Kentucky Derby, on May 5. While the colt won at Santa Anita, the failed drug test would mean disqualification and forfeiture of both the prize money and the entry into the Kentucky Derby that came with the victory.

None of that happened, though.

Test results, emails and internal memorandums in the Justify case show how California regulators waited nearly three weeks, until the Kentucky Derby was only nine days away, to notify Baffert that his Derby favorite had failed a doping test.

Four months later — and more than two months after Justify, Baffert and the horse’s owners celebrated their Triple Crown victory in New York — the board disposed of the inquiry altogether during a closed-door executive session. It decided, with little evidence, that the positive test could have been a result of Justify’s eating contaminated food. The board voted unanimously to dismiss the case. In October, it changed the penalty for a scopolamine violation to the lesser penalty of a fine and possible suspension.

Baffert did not respond to multiple attempts to contact him for this article.

Rick Baedeker, the executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, acknowledged that it was a delicate case because of its timing. He said regulators moved cautiously because scopolamine could be found in jimson weed, which can grow wildly where dung is present and become inadvertently mixed in feed, and that “environmental contamination” is often used as a defense.

“We could end up in Superior Court one day,” he said.

“There was no way that we could have come up with an investigative report prior to the Kentucky Derby,” he added. “That’s impossible. Well, that’s not impossible, that would have been careless and reckless for us to tell an investigator what usually takes you two months, you have to get done in five days, eight days. We weren’t going to do that.”

The documents reviewed by The Times do not show any evidence of pressure or tampering by Justify’s owners. Horse racing, however, is uniquely insular.

The chairman of the California Horse Racing Board, Chuck Winner, owns an interest in horses trained by Baffert. Two other board members employ trainers and jockeys they regulate.

Justify’s owners included power brokers in the sport such as Kentucky-based WinStar Farm, owned by Kenny Troutt, a billionaire commercial thoroughbred breeder; the mysterious China Horse Club, whose 200 members from mainland China and beyond have paid $1 million to join; and an equine investment fund with ties to the billionaire investor George Soros. Baffert is America’s pre-eminent trainer. He has won the Kentucky Derby five times. In 2015, he trained American Pharoah, the first horse to win the Triple Crown after Affirmed won in 1978.

With Justify, Baffert was faced with a late-developing colt who did not race as a 2-year-old. The last horse to win the Derby without starting as a 2-year-old was Apollo in 1882.

As is customary, blood and urine samples from Justify and 34 other horses who competed on the day of the Santa Anita Derby were delivered on April 10 to a lab at the University of California, Davis.

The lab sent notice on April 18, two and a half weeks before the Kentucky Derby, that Justify had tested positive for scopolamine, which is normally used to treat stomach or intestinal problems, such as nausea and muscle spasms, in humans.

Horse racing has a long history of trainers’ repurposing drugs in pursuit of a performance edge. Frog and cobra venom, Viagra, cocaine, heart medicines and steroids have all been detected in drug tests.

Scopolamine cases have resulted in disqualifications, purse reimbursements, fines and suspensions over the decades.

Dr. Rick Sams, who ran the drug lab for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission from 2011 to 2018, said scopolamine can act as a bronchodilator to clear a horse’s airway and optimize a horse’s heart rate, making the horse more efficient. He said the amount of scopolamine found in Justify — 300 nanograms per milliliter — was excessive, and suggested the drug was intended to enhance performance.

“I think it has to come from intentional intervention,” he said.

Baffert and other trainers in California were well aware that scopolamine was a banned substance and that it could occasionally be found in jimson weed, though the plant’s strong odor and foul taste make it unappealing. In November 2016, Dr. Rick Arthur, the racing board’s equine medical director, warned horsemen to be alert to jimson weed in their feed and hay, saying that a positive test for the drug is “totally avoidable.”

“Now, the likelihood under our current procedures of getting a positive from environmental contamination is rather low,” Dr. Arthur said at the time.

On April 20, two days after learning of Justify’s positive test, Dr. Arthur wrote in an email circulated to Baedeker, the board’s executive director, its lawyers and its interim chief investigator that the case would be “handled differently than usual.” He asked for further testing and review of the data.

In an interview, Baedeker, speaking on behalf of Dr. Arthur, said he believed Dr. Arthur meant that the investigation had to be thorough.

Other doping cases have moved swiftly through California’s racing bureaucracy. In March, an employee of a trainer, William Morey, was caught on surveillance giving a prohibited drug to a horse. Lab tests were conducted, an investigation completed and a complaint filed and made public 28 days later.

On the morning of April 26, four days before Justify was to ship to Louisville, Ky., for the Kentucky Derby, Baffert received notification that Justify had tested positive for scopolamine. Baffert, as was his right, asked that another sample from that test be sent to an approved independent lab.

It was sent on May 1, four days before the Derby, and that lab confirmed the result on May 8. (By then, Justify had won the Derby, the first leg of the Triple Crown.) The same day, Baedeker notified the board members that Justify had tested positive for scopolamine.

“The C.H.R.B. investigations unit will issue a complaint and a hearing will be scheduled,” he told them in a memorandum obtained by The Times.

No one ever filed a complaint and the hearing never took place.

Instead, on Aug. 23, 2018, more than four months after the failed test, Baedeker said he presented the Justify case directly to the commissioners of the California Horse Racing Board in a private executive session, a step he had never taken in his five-and-a-half-year tenure. The board voted unanimously not to proceed with the case against Baffert.

Without a formal complaint, Baedeker said state law prohibited him from discussing in detail the evidence of environmental contamination. In a written response, Baedeker said that a handful of other horses may have been contaminated, but he offered little supporting evidence.

“The other horses had the presence of scopolamine but below the screening level and therefore were not positive tests,” he said in a written response.

The California racing board, along with the horse racing industry at large, has been under fire because of the death of 30 racehorses since Dec. 26 at Santa Anita Park. The Los Angeles district attorney is investigating the deaths, and the state legislature has held hearings and considered changes to improve how horses are treated and tracks regulated.

California statutes do not prohibit active horse owners from being appointed to the regulatory board overseeing the sport. Beyond the chairman’s owner-trainer relationship with Baffert, the board’s vice chairwoman, Madeline Auerbach, and another commissioner, Dennis Alfieri, employ trainers and jockeys in California.

Joe Gorajec, a former chairman of the Association of Racing Commissioners International, a trade group of industry commissioners, said the system was doomed to fail in California and other states in which the regulators are in business with the people they are there to police.

“Minimal prohibitions should preclude active horse owners, trainers, breeders and jockeys, or anyone else that derives income from the business, to serve on a commission,” said Gorajec, who was executive director of the Indiana Horse Racing Commission. “Commissioners should be prohibited from wagering in the state they serve.”

In the months that followed the decision to drop the case against Justify, the racing board moved to lessen the penalty for a scopolamine violation from disqualification and forfeiture of purse to only a fine and suspension.

Baedeker said regulators had been considering a move to the lesser standard. He said the plan was to appeal for the lesser classification if the matter came before a hearing.

“Our staff failed to bring those changes to the board — we admit that,” he said.

Baffert has endured previous regulatory proceedings in California

In 2013, after seven horses in his care died over a 16-month period, he was the subject of a report by the board, which revealed he had been giving every horse in his barn a thyroid hormone without checking to see if any of them had thyroid problems.

Baffert told the investigators that he thought the medication would help “build up” his horses even though the drug is generally associated with weight loss. In that case, the board’s report found no evidence “that C.H.R.B. rules or regulations have been violated.”

In retirement, Justify mates as often as three times a day. Coolmore, the international breeding concern that bought Justify’s breeding rights, receives as much as $150,000 for a mating, or $450,000 a day over a five-month breeding season. That means Coolmore has already recouped its $60 million investment.

Justify is currently in Australia. Owners there have their mares lined up in the hope of getting what is supposed to be the perfect seed from the perfect racehorse.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/12/justify-failed-drug-test-triple-crown-horse-racing-kentucky-derby
I think the attached is a more thoughtful article - really racing in the US  a bad joke for drugs etc.

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From a BloodHorse article yesterday, emphasis mine:

"Arthur said there was one other horse who surpassed the scopolamine threshold and a number of other horses who showed some level of the substance in their systems after racing at Santa Anita Park that weekend, April 6-8, 2018. He also noted that when the positive is associated with jimson weed, as opposed to an administration of Buscopan, the lab indicates positives for both scopolamine and atropine, which was the case with Justify and five other horses that weekend. Finally, he noted that the level of scopolamine that showed up in Justify's blood test was much lower than what came back in his urine test, which he said was another factor indicating contamination.

"Scopolamine is a toxin in jimson weed. It comes along with atropine, which is what we saw in a number of these cases as well," Arthur said. "Buscopan can be easily differentiated in the laboratory (from jimsonwood contamination) as only scopolamine or atropine is detected—not both. The reality of it is that six of these horses have both scopolamine and atropine in their systems. So they have two different plant alkaloids that are typically found together with jimson weed poisoning."

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/235769/scopolamine-substance-in-middle-of-justify-scandal

The above IMO is pretty convincing that the overage is a result of environmental contamination, and follows a 2016 release from CHRB stating that there is known Jimson Weed contamination of both hay and bedding straw.  Although it doesn't state who the affected horses belonged to, having six animals all pop positive for the same chemical on the same day in the same way means that either there was a mass colic outbreak and nobody had any banamine, multiple people doping multiple horses in a way that contravenes evidence on how the drug breaks down in the body, or multiple somebodies got bored and ate their bedding straw which may have contained seeds or leaves of the plant in question.

That said: CHRB screwed up here by keeping it very close to the vest.  It creates the appearance of favouritism, even if no doping existed.  Even making a public release of WHY scopolamine was downgraded and the conditions leading to that decision would have been smarter than just...changing things and hoping nobody with an axe to grind went digging.

Finally, anyone who wants to have a horse in an FEI competition in southern California: buy hay cubes or pellets, bed your horses in shavings, and keep samples of bedding as well as feed.  If the standard for FEI is no fault, no negligence, and a condition exists that no reasonable person can prevent, then you need to be straight up neurotic about keeping your horse from any kind of potential cross-contamination.

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It's a Girl: First Foal by Justify Born in Kentucky.

The first reported foal from the initial crop by 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify  was born Jan. 3 at Amaroo Farm in Kentucky, owners Audley Farm reported the following afternoon.

The bay filly is the first foal out of the winning Exchange Rate mare Foreign Affair, a half sister to the group 3-winning, group 1-placed Scat Daddy filly So Perfect.

Audley stood America's first Triple Crown winner, Sir Barton, after he swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes in 1919.

Audley Farm, a 3,000-acre facility located in Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, has produced a number of fine Thoroughbreds in the past few years. Among them are grade 1 winner Bodemeister, sire of 2017 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) winner Always Dreaming.

Justify stood his first season at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky in 2019 for an advertised fee of $150,000.

According to statistics provided by The Jockey Club, the son of Scat Daddy covered 252 mares in his initial season, a number mirrored only by fellow Ashford stallion Mendelssohn .

Justify attracted 41 grade 1-winning mares, the largest number bred by a North American stallion.
 His 2020 fee remains advertised at $150,000.
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A. Little disappointing at Chairman’s sale today for mares IF. Opinions?
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$1.8 Million Samaready to Visit Justify
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Coolmore’s Tom Magnier secured Group I winner Booker earlier in the Inglis Chairman’s Sale for $1.6 million and then later added Champion Sprinting filly Samaready to his tally for $1.8 million, both mares set to be covered by Triple Crown winner Justify (USA) in the spring.

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A. Little disappointing at Chairman’s sale today for mares IF. Opinions?

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Hello,
Justify has the first foal in Germany, too!
 
Justify-La Saldana by Fastnet Rock-La Salina, bred by the 'Faehrhof Stud', colt, foaled 24.04.20.
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An Australian sort of connection in Germany.

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Dam of Russian Emperor in Foal to Justify

18/06/2020

The Group III Hampton Court Stakes (1m2f) at Royal Ascot overnight was won by blue-blooded colt Russian Emperor (3c Galileo x Atlantic Jewel, by Fastnet Rock), a son of champion Australian mare Atlantic Jewel, who is now back at stud in Australia and in foal to Justify.

Trained by Aidan OBrien and ridden by Ryan Moore, Russian Emperor improved on his last start second in the Group III Derrinstown Derby Trial, hitting the line hard to win by half a length.

Russian Emperor is a really nice colt and he's got a lovely attitude. His dam was very good, she was a champion in Australia, said Ryan Moore.

He won his maiden at Naas and it was very quick at Leopardstown the last day, it was hard to make up ground. He was very professional today and he showed a good attitude, I think ten furlongs is fine but he may get further. I think he'll be a nice horse for the rest of the year. Whether he runs in the Derby will be decided, but he's given himself a chance.

A four time Group I winner by Fastnet Rock, Atlantic Jewel was sent to the Northern Hemisphere to begin her stud career for Coolmore and Russian Emperor is her second foal to race and both are winners.

He was retained to race by breeders Laurie Macri, Coolmore and partners.

She has a two year-old filly and yearling colt to follow by Galileo and is now back in Australia and safely in foal to Triple Crown hero Justify, who covered 149 of the finest mares in Australasia last year.

Justifys first Australian book included stakes-winners:

G1 winners Atlantic Jewel, Nakeeta Jane, Black Mamba (NZ), Global Glamour, Scarlett Lady (NZ), Srikandi, The Party Stand, Aide Memoire (NZ), Cat Moves (USA), Galaxy Star, Savvy Coup (NZ), Kononkop (Arg), Loving New (Brz)

G2 winners Badawoya, Dream Play (USA), Floria (NZ), Fontein Ruby, Formality, Hips Dont Lie, Ill Have a Bit, Legless Veuve (NZ), Our Abbadean (NZ), Savanpinski (NZ), Sensible Princess (NZ), Lightstream (USA)

G3 winners Aspen Lass (NZ), Celebrity Dream (NZ), Eckstein, Ennis Hill, Enstone (Can), Evo Campo (IRE) Graceful Anna, Invincible Star, Jazz Song, Koonoomoo, Lady Melksham, Moment in Time, Neena Rock, Pedrena, Princess Posh, Sacred Eye, Tulip, Love to Boogie (SAF),

Listed winners Brilliant Bisc, Enticing Star, Galizani, Jennifer Lynn, Lake Geneva, Marianne, Miss Seton Sands, Peron, Stopshoppingmaria (USA)

Also the dams of stakes-winners:

G1 winners- Loving Gaby, Irish Lights, Oohood, Extra Brut, Age of Fire, Julinsky Prince, Mighty Boss, Go Indy Go, Questing New, Better Life (Sng), Le Romain, The Mission, Dear Demi

G2 winners Oceanex, Zululand, Always Shopping, Lumosty, Fiesta, Pretty Brazen, Sertorius, Believe Yourself

G3 winners Amexed, Essay Raider, Ennis Hill, Pohutukawa, Dawn Wall, Dollar for Dollar, Super One, Chivalry

Listed winners Mickey Blue Eyes, Lake Geneva, First Crush, Mo Shopping, In a Twinkling, Religify, Sebring Sun

Justify stands this year at a fee of $66,000.

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It is an impressive list of mares.

I hope they are not wasted.

Does it concern breeders that his whole career is virtually tainted, does not seem so ? 
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Djebel, thanks for the news re Atlantic Jewel and Justify.

At the risk of appearing negative, what worries me a trifle about the mating is that:

The match appears underwhelming from a pedigree match perspective;
Soundness might present a problem given both Justify and his old man Scat Daddy retired through injury before their 4yo year; and
Justify, having being trained by Bob Baffert, may have received considerable "assistance" during his brief racing career.

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There seem to have been several of these high class, top performed, dirt horses stand here but do they actually produce decent horses in Oz? I can't think of any but that generally means diddly squat LOL
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Thinking of Big Brown , lot of fanfare, dud, raced on bute, nuff said.
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There is one that was excellent. He also had form in Dubai but majority of his racing was in USA. Of course Australia let him go until he proved himself a good sire and luckily so as we would never have had Winx. But definitely a top class sire as he produced 2 'once in a lifetime' horses in Winx and Zenyatta and many other champions and group winners.

Of course I am talking of Street Cry.
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Quite true kacg.

One difference between Street Cry and Justify, at least in terms of this thread, is that the former raced more often and over three seasons before retiring.  And wasn't trained by Bob Baffert.  Wink
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More Than Ready is another who raced on dirt tracks.


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