Vet backs off on Smarty's recovery

[asfufh]

http://sports.excite.com/news/11112004/v9474.html

[slakboy]

The Chapmans are full of horsesh*t. They did take the money and run, and good for them. Smarty\'s stud fee is set and he\'s already being booked. Does anyone really think they\'d really be able to walk away from the $11 million in stud fees that Smarty will generate next year? There\'s no way Smarty was running again.  

The anti-Smarty backlash may be a tad unfair but they\'re obviously feeling it and they\'re stepping up the propaganda campaign to support their lunchticket.  They\'re probably going to lose Horse of the Year to GZ and came close to losing the three-year old championship to Kitten\'s Joy. No one saw that happening in August.  This is making it more difficult to justify his six-figure  stud fee given hispedestrian lineage.