SHAKE UP
SHAKE YOU DOWN RETIRED
Well, I wasn't the only one griping about millionaire SHAKE YOU DOWN still racing while not being competitive for low claiming and perhaps all the noise finally got to owner Robert Cole Jr.
In today's THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS, from the T-bred Times, it was announced the gelding has been retired to Marion County Correction Facility in Ocala, Florida.
The multiple graded stakes winning sprinter is 9-years-0ld and will no doubt get great care at the Facility, which houses many other retired racehorses.
Well, I wasn't the only one griping about millionaire SHAKE YOU DOWN still racing while not being competitive for low claiming and perhaps all the noise finally got to owner Robert Cole Jr.
In today's THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS, from the T-bred Times, it was announced the gelding has been retired to Marion County Correction Facility in Ocala, Florida.
The multiple graded stakes winning sprinter is 9-years-0ld and will no doubt get great care at the Facility, which houses many other retired racehorses.
posted by Jen Morrison @ 7:01 AM
5 Comments:
At 5:31 PM,
rather rapid said…
sorry to disagree on shake u down. as long as the horse is sound, healthy and enjoying its work, what's wrong with continuing to race as opposed to being stuck in a stall in a correction facility? horses really do enjoy racing. it gives them something to do.
At 8:37 PM,
Anonymous said…
In reply to rather rapid, the horse is going to live at the correctional facility to give the inmates an opportunity to learn a new trade, caring for horses. The horse is not going to "jail" there. I imagine there will be very nice turnout paddocks, where he will munch grass and race around, not be stuck in a stall all day. Sounds like a nice new job to me.
At 10:49 AM,
Anonymous said…
As one of the two original owners to race Shake You Down, I could not be happier with Robert Cole's decision to "finally" do the right thing and retire him.
Shakie had nothing left to prove to anyone out on the race track. He was a warrior on the track and a perfect gentleman off the track. His physical ailments along with his age have caught up with him.
He deserves nothing less than to live out his days grazing in Ocala. I salute you old friend.
At 7:53 AM,
Anonymous said…
Better to have Shake You Down live his life out in a correctional institute than lose his life on a racetrack. You don't go from being competitive at the highest level of this sport to running for a low tag because you are perfectly sound - even if the owner and trainer couldn't detect any problems, the horse was trying to tell them something. Kudos to them for finally listening.
Many people mistake a horse's discontent upon retiring from a lengthy career and being turned out on a farm, as the horse's wish to get back to the races. It is the constant attention they miss, not the rigours of our sport. Most of these horses are more than happy to go on to a new career and, hopefully, Shake You Down will be content with his new job, teaching Florida inmates new skills.
At 2:26 PM,
Anonymous said…
we can send horses to jail now?
WHOOOHOOOO!
I have a long list of nags you could send up the river....
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