Aga Khan again.
Moderators: Roguelet, WaveMaster, madelyn
-
- Breeder's Cup Contender
- Posts: 1936
- Joined: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:20 am
- Location: Mountlake Terrace, WA
Aga Khan again.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
-
- Maiden Special Weight
- Posts: 101
- Joined: Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:39 pm
- Location: illinois
Was reading an interesting article on the Aga man. Did you know that he has derived his wealth basically by people sending him money? Estimated at 200 million dollars a year coming in. Uses some of it for charity, but keeps the majority of it for his own use, including his tremendous horse operation and holdings.
Crazy freaking world we live in.
Crazy freaking world we live in.
-
- Breeder's Cup Contender
- Posts: 1936
- Joined: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:20 am
- Location: Mountlake Terrace, WA
-
- Breeder's Cup Contender
- Posts: 1811
- Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:43 pm
-
- Allowance Winner
- Posts: 343
- Joined: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:54 pm
- Location: OFF THE WALL OR POLITICS
[quote="pfrsue"]Kharezi is lovely...from the elbows up. Poor guy.[/quote]
And I find myself asking, why can't the A.K. just retire that boy to a nice pasture, geld him, and let him live out a happy life at A.K.'s expense. It is ok to breed crooked horses who should never be raced, but it isn't ok to humanely retire them so they don't get hurt AND actually absorb the cost????? Especially if people are sending A.K. all that money every year.
Am I the only one who is confused by this??????
And I find myself asking, why can't the A.K. just retire that boy to a nice pasture, geld him, and let him live out a happy life at A.K.'s expense. It is ok to breed crooked horses who should never be raced, but it isn't ok to humanely retire them so they don't get hurt AND actually absorb the cost????? Especially if people are sending A.K. all that money every year.
Am I the only one who is confused by this??????
- pfrsue
- Grade III Winner
- Posts: 1079
- Joined: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:42 pm
- Location: You can't get there from here.
Affirmed1 wrote:pfrsue wrote:Kharezi is lovely...from the elbows up. Poor guy.
And I find myself asking, why can't the A.K. just retire that boy to a nice pasture, geld him, and let him live out a happy life at A.K.'s expense. It is ok to breed crooked horses who should never be raced, but it isn't ok to humanely retire them so they don't get hurt AND actually absorb the cost????? Especially if people are sending A.K. all that money every year.
Am I the only one who is confused by this??????
To be fair, he IS gelded, thank goodness. And while it's pretty horrifying to look at, I used to know an off track TB gelding who was almost as over at the knees, but still managed to have a successful second career as a Grand Prix dressage horse. I always thought his rider deserved a medal every time she got on him, since I was convinced that his front end would just crumple beneath the added weight. It never did as long as I knew him.
-
- Restricted Stakes Winner
- Posts: 778
- Joined: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:19 pm
- Location: canada
many years ago I had an open jumper of gradprix caliber with knees like that.I don't mind over at the knees,I am more afraid of back at the knees,they break all the time.
The sport and industry survive not only because of the champions that are remembered forever but also because of the losers that are so easy to forget...