After Market at the Lane’s End Stallion Open House (sj block)

Apparently After Market had a quiet little retirement after being scratched from the BC [Thoroughbred Times].

I would have thought that I was the only one who missed it but I was reading a handicapping article entitled Big Names to Bet Against [DRF+], and guess who one of the big names was:

As events proceeded, After Market had to be scratched at Monmouth Park because of the soft turf he cannot navigate. That meant After Market will return in the Nov. 23-25 Hollywood Park Turf Festival, where he will likely be dominated again by Crossing the Line, who will no longer be a double-digit overlay, but an overlay nonetheless.

The retirement article was dated Oct 29th and the article quoted above is date Nov 12th.

That’s a quiet retirement if the DRF doesn’t know about it! Dan Illman also published an updated Disabled List today with no inclusion of After Market in the Retired Column.

I’d love to think that maybe he’s really not retired, although being paraded around at the Lane’s End Stallion Open House 11/03/2007 would indicate otherwise.