Where's Alumni Hall?

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Where's Alumni Hall?

Postby magic code » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:21 pm

He's no longer listed on Lane's End's website. Anyone know what's up?
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Postby Heidilady » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:02 am

Wow that's odd. I could've sworn I read something not long ago where they talked about him and the mares that would work well. Maybe they're redoing his info. Couldn't imagine that they'd jump off him this quickly would they?
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Postby madelyn » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:05 am

Well I wonder what's up with that? Shades of Wild Wonder?
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Postby johnt » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:56 am

he has fertility issues. they found out about 2 weeks ago.
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Postby johnt » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:58 am

he has fertility issues. they found out about 2 weeks ago.
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Postby Heidilady » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:59 pm

Hmm anything to do with being an AP Indy then? Was Alumni Hall a cryptorchid? I wonder what's going to happen to the ol' boy. He just turned 8.
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Postby aurora » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:53 am

Yeah, I had a mare booked to AH and Lanes End called to say that he "hasnt' adjusted to stallion life". I've had to scramble to find an alternate stallion for the mare.
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Postby Swaps1955 » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:46 pm

"Hadn't adjusted to stallion life?" What does that mean? It could be a world of things. Any information, anyone?
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Postby Heidilady » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:54 pm

Swaps1955 wrote:"Hadn't adjusted to stallion life?" What does that mean? It could be a world of things. Any information, anyone?


Couldn't mean he's not putting out could it? Kinda hard to knock up a mare if you're pulling a War Emblem. If he had seriously low fertility though seems like we'd have heard something other than 'adjusting' to anything. Unless they mean adjusting to the treatment for his sperm motility.
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Postby reenci » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:18 am

maybe he's one of them alternate life style kinda people...errrr horses :roll: :oops:
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Postby magic code » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:33 pm

Apparently going into training as a steeplechaser!
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Postby geowarrior » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:41 pm

Magic Code, are you kidding? I was thinking that he and George Washington might like to get together.
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Postby Diane » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:23 pm

I knew a piaffe/passage guru who liked to start by teaching horses to step up with their two front feet onto those huge cable spools. Maybe they are going to teach AH jumping over bushes for confidence......they don't kick+squeal?
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Postby Tairaterces » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:13 pm

magic code wrote:Apparently going into training as a steeplechaser!



And a chaser he will be . . . . . . . . . .(like Ten Cents a Shine)

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Postby freshman » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:03 pm

Nope, it isn't April 1st. I checked.

I guess I'm glad to see Alumni Hall continue to run, or jump, if he's sound and still interested in it. It really is too bad that he's declined to join the boys in the shed, though; he's a very nice horse, very durable.

I am glad that he is not going to be gelded. Perhaps at some point in the future, after Alumni Hall is retired for the final time, someone will turn him out in the back forty with a mare or two, and he'll decide to do something about them.

Even then, he would still be effectively infertile from a commercial standpoint. Does Farish own Alumni Hall outright? I hope that there is always a stall for him on his farm, even if it isn't in the stallion barn.
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