I heard this horse was being retired after saturdays race, i wonder if this is still on the cards or if they ever really did plan to retire it?

this also highlights the difficulty of backing short priced favorites.
in larger fields and competitive higher prizemoney races these short priced horses are higher risk. this is not to say that a well oiled professional would touch a short priced horse in a competitive race.

but we are not professionals. to dabble around on a few dollars at 2/1 is not much fun and not satisfying and risky if you lose a couple of races as you cannot recover it.

I must admit that when racing ceases to be fun then I will probably turn to another interest. So searching out the longer prices horses is my go and perhaps we dream about cracking the 100/1 shot.
but I'll get one one day.
good luck and merry xmas and new year to all. heres to a good year ahead.

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laurie