I have been thinking (as my wife and children always say - that’s a dangerous activity for you, Dad).
Every year we vote for Famous Stallions and a bunch of 12 are ‘voted in’ for that year. The next year, we vote again and a new bunch of 12 get ‘voted in’. Usually, 3 or 4 of the previous years Famous Stallions get ‘voted out’ and disappear from the breeding ranks.
Instead of just having these 3 or 4 just disappear from the breeding ranks, maybe Shanthi could set up something like a claiming draft so we can buy them. List the available stallions, announce the claiming order, similar to how Claiming races are set up, and the first stable in the order gets to choose if they want to buy one of the stallions and which one, and so on down the order until all of the available stallions are selected. They would all have a sale price of $1m. I don’t know if that would be easier to set up than just putting them in a straight auction, but that could work too. It just seems to be a pity that one year, we have some great stallion just disappear, e.g. Frosted and Talismanic at the end of last year.
Anyhow, now that I’ve mentioned my thought, I’ll go back to a ‘less dangerous’ activity, like planning my entries for Wednesday!!!