Future: stud or racing?

Although two weeks ago trainer Kelly O'Donnell said he was hoping to start Little Brown Jug winner P-Forty-Seven in the Breeders Crown later this month at the Meadowlands, he has decided instead to shut the sophomore colt down for the year.



"I think he was just a little tired, and since I didn't want to take a chance on him looking bad, we just quit with him," O'Donnell told harnessracing.com Wednesday morning. "There's nothing really wrong with him. Two heats (in the Adios) at The Meadows, two heats in the Jug, and the way he raced, I think it just kind of tired him out a little bit."



P-Forty-Seven won eight of 17 starts this year and $566,174 for O'Donnell and partners Ed Mullinax and Mark Maynard. O'Donnell said the ownership group is looking to sell P-Forty-Seven--whose career-best 1:48.2 effort came while winning the Meadowlands Pace consolation in July--for stud duty, but otherwise he plans on bringing the son of The Panderosa back to the races next summer.



"We also have him for sale if some farm wants to buy him as a sire," said O'Donnell. "We've had a couple people talking about him, but right now the stud market, according to everybody we talked to, is pretty much overflooded. There's really nobody out there looking to buy a whole horse which is what we would do. If we sell him we're going to sell the whole horse, but if that doesn't transpire then we plan on racing him."



O'Donnell said if no sale happens that P-Forty-Seven will soon head to Spring Garden Ranch in Florida where he winter trains. He said he doesn't expect to be in any hurry to bring the then 4 year old back to the races and that he will likely only start him a handful of times.



"We'll see how he is. I'm not going to start him up early and fight all those good horses early--the 5 and 6 year olds--we'll just see how he comes along and play it by ear," he said.

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