Racing's most expensive flops.

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Racing's most expensive flops.

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Let's be honest 95% of all expensive yearlings flop

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SA racing's most expensive flop? No contest it's clearly Larry
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Larry Holmes? I see he’s taking the boxing world by storm
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Was just watching Facebook and that R9M horse bought by MDK and gather it has or did not run ?

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......the most expensive flop was Nodoubt Deja Sold to Marcus Jooste for 3 million (AUD) in the 2006 Sydney Easter Sale. approx ZAR BAR 30 and was an Ozz sales record at the time.....:S

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Surely The Jockey Academy ranks as a flop....of course you can name the odd champion but to be frank most coming out of there should be painting and decorating

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easy wrote:
Surely The Jockey Academy ranks as a flop....of course you can name the odd champion but to be frank most coming out of there should be painting and decorating

Bloody harsh man....

Remember the numbers... If SA were churning out 50 or 60 appies a year like the UK, then of course there would be more "Champions"

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Was renamed Al Zaraqaan but had not raced as of yet.


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Was just watching Facebook and that R9M horse bought by MDK and gather it has or did not run ?

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Rubbish

there would be more soup meat in SA.......most apprentices in the UK have been riding since birth, mucking out, riding ponies.

In Sa to keep that establishment open they LOOK for candidates every year.

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Rubbish

there would be more soup meat in SA.......most apprentices in the UK have been riding since birth, mucking out, riding ponies.

In Sa to keep that establishment open they LOOK for candidates every year.

And most end up mucking out for a living or "Painters and Decorators "

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The current iteration is just a sign of the times with regards racing SA. The Jock acc. of years gone by was world class.

In SA we now have less than 90 Jockeys and Appies available at any given time. Spread of 4 provinces makes u very light. This number is down from about 120, 6 years ago.


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Surely The Jockey Academy ranks as a flop....of course you can name the odd champion but to be frank most coming out of there should be painting and decorating

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