A tell you what Barry

Here is an interesting little tidbit.

One of the recent president of the USA has been rumored to own a piece of one of the biggest and most successful stud farms in Kentucky. At the very least, this fellow has participated in partnership to breed horses that were sold as yearlings at Keeneland.

In some places in the world, this president is considered every bit as much of a war criminal as some of people you mentioned, such as Gadaffi.

People bought and continue to buy from this stud farm.

I guess some would have me restrict my business only to those select individuals that qualify under a strict code of preferred buyers and sellers.

What we did and what I did was good business.

I am an American. Proud of it. And if I did business with somebody that was a clear and obvious enemy of my country, that would be worthy of comment.

This other commentary is nonsense.

barry you can justify all you want to do business with this gentleman in fact if you were involved in the horse game in the forties you would have justified doing business with adolf.....all the best for world cup night lechaim

Barry Irwin Wrote:
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> 2) However, when one is offered an amount of money
> that exceeds what one can achieve even if the
> horse wins the biggest race in the world, even a
> gambler such as I has to strongly consider it.


wow is the 1st prize for winning the Dubai WC not $6 million...R40million for a horse the buyer must really love the sport...i wonder if H Brown had any input into the purchase..

Barry I hear the Zim President might be looking for a nice horse to run at Borrowdale....maybe your syndicate will take his money..heehee

The point that some seem to be missing is that the horse has been sold in it's entirety......it is not as if the new owner has been accepted as a partner,and further to that point,obviously the sale happened because the syndicate received more than they perceived the horse to be worth,but paid by the new owner to feed his own ego,come saturday.
With that in mind,would you prefer to benefit from your enemy or your mate?

Barry Irwin Wrote:

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> > > surely if barry irwin and syndicate sell a
> > horse
> > > to whomever what has it to do with anybody
> > else???
> >
> > Well most of the shit we discuss on this forum
> > usually hasn't got anything to do with anyone
> > here. That doesn't mean we can't give our
> 2cents
> > worth.
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> > I'm sure barry couldn't give a toss about what
> we
> > all think but the point is a public forum is
> about
> > opinions, whether we have a right to say
> anything
> > is irrelevant.
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> > Barry, I suspect you might dodge this question
> but
> > for what its worth if it was entirely your
> > decision would you have done the deal?
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> Sasky, if I didn't give a rat's ass, why would I
> waste my time posting here?
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> Have I dodged a lot of questions around here?
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> Who the fork else do you know in my position that
> comes on here and goes toe to toe with some of the
> most ill-informed and illiterate members of the
> entire South African racing fraternity? You make
> the inhabitants of "Animal House" look like Rhode
> Scholars!
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> But I love you guys, especially the best of you. I
> really like Dave and Bob and Magic and Tommy and a
> bunch of others. I tolerate as best I can the
> challenged posters.
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> What was the question again? I got so carried away
> with my witty prose I forgot the stoopid
> question.
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> Oh yeah, if the decision rested upon my shoulders,
> would I have sold the horse?
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> I will answer it this way:
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> 1) I am a gambler...a true gambler. When I stopped
> punting on races and began punting on horses, I
> learned what a real gamble is. And being a
> gambler, I naturally don't like to sell if I
> believe in a horse.
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> 2) However, when one is offered an amount of money
> that exceeds what one can achieve even if the
> horse wins the biggest race in the world, even a
> gambler such as I has to strongly consider it.
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> 3) Last weekend I was a willing seller. Our
> partners voted 100 percent to sell.
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> 4) Monday we learned that Bold Silvano had been
> withdrawn. If the offer had come after this
> scratching, I would not have been a willing
> seller.

Barry, you usually are open and honest about most of the questions you're asked, which is much appreciated.

Its very easy to shout from the sidelines about doing business with this one and that one but I highly doubt anyone of us would turn down the sale on principle. Its not like Barry is selling drugs, arms, laundering money or doing dodgy deals with the guy, he's simply selling a horse in good faith.

I reckon virtually every wealthy Russian has done something the West would consider unethical, corrupt etc, not saying its right but thats the way business is done there. I think theres a distinct difference between say selling your house to the Gadaffi's of this world and entering into a business venture with the guy, as the French and Brits have done and are now paying the price.

I'm sure we'd all prefer to do a deal with so called "upstanding citizens" but that only exists in fantasy land...

Sasky, think about it this way: how many times a day can a grown man jerk off? What else have some of these guys got to do to keep their hands occupied after that? So they go on the Internet and troll around. Their wives are happy, so that's a good thing.

I'd take anybody's money who would give me (say) R40 million for something I think is worth (say) R30 million. Gaddafi, Satan, Mugabe, Jack the Ripper - anybody. I won't even try to pretend otherwise, and as Rob pointed out this is not a partnership of some sort, it's an outright sale.

if bin laden offered me $4mil for the horse id take it..... and send him a new playstation game too><

barry you seem to know a lot about wanking i notice...magic i never doubted you and your views on who you would deal with so thats no surprize

Barry Irwin Wrote:

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> Sasky, think about it this way: how many times a
> day can a grown man jerk off? What else have some
> of these guys got to do to keep their hands
> occupied after that? So they go on the Internet
> and troll around. Their wives are happy, so that's
> a good thing.


now that you say that I think I am very fortunate because I get somebody else to jerk me off as I troll on the internet and play with my X Box 360

So thats what the X box does? must get one