AMO RACING

think thery paid near 5 million for poker ...finished tailed off last in the derby

You think Wathnan are financially viable ?????

According to the Post,last year,they'd spent up to £62M in the sales ring.

if the banks lent you money would YOU worry ?

your cut of a 120 mill from elliott anderson and dozens of other 50m + footballers,keeps the wolve from the door

Wathnan just want winners, Amo want a stallion or two, King Of Steel is only standing for 15,000

Coolmoore, Godolphin, Judmond, Shadwell and the Aga khan in a different league compared to the rest. Doesnt matter How much money Amo and Kia throw at it. 

He's being bankrolled, one day it'll be called in and that's when the solids will hit the air conditioning.

You'd swear this was some sort of money laundering operation - it's a deplorable return with very few moments of glory over many years.
It's as if it's sabotage from a trusted employee...who secretly despises Kia.

Whoever's ultimately responsible for their purchasing advice should hang his head in shame because he's clearly out of his depth and
pushing trolleys around a supermarket car-park may well be his area of questionable 'expertise' - he should be signing on the dole!

I really do believe if they did a lucky dip and chose a team of three racing enthusiasts on here to advise then they couldn't possibly
do any worse...even with The Iron involved They may as well have played bingo with the catalogue book numbers at the sales!

That idiot in charge must have had minimal interest in the sport until recently and with literally more money than sense has probably
saw what Coolmore, Juddmonte & Aga Khan have spent decades doing with a breeding operation and figured it's a gold mine!

I'm not aware of Wathnan's finances (I'd surmise the Emir of Qatar isn't on his ársé) but whoever gives the nod with their purchases
is doing a decent job - maybe Kia should do some headhunting?

PS - speaking of Wathnan...can anyone remember a horse in the late 70s called Weth Nan?
I have vague memories of him running against the great Kris in around 1978/79/80.

Ryan Price?

I think it was mate...but I can't be árséd looking for my old form books

I've repeatedly asked Grok for a summary of the horse's career but that idiot keeps telling me about Wath Nan
and has nothing on it.
I thought I was losing it...so I'm glad 'Lead on' has the same brain implants/memories as I have

From about the same time as Obratzovy,M Lolshan,Lake City and quite a few other decent horses trained by Ryan Price I think

3RD 1978 2000G.

Lead on  - I think you're right with all three...and another which has just come to mind from the memory banks was Varingo.
Penzance - that's another one of those well packed away memories

sussex stakes, was this wath nan ?      https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=kris+race+horse&&mid=18...

Thanks EJ - I knew he was behind Kris in a big race...just couldn't
recall which one as the race was on one of my old racing videotapes

Not this one then?

Weth Nan is a 51 years old Grey Thoroughbred Gelding born 1975 in United States of America. Sired by Drone (1966) out of the mare Spare the Rod (1966). Bred by Herbert B. Gonzalez in United States of America and owned by Mr. E. Alkhalifa. Pedigree Analysis in five generations: Weth Nan (1975) is inbred to the following horses: Mahmoud (1933) 4x4, Nearco (1935) 4x5, Blenheim (1927) 5x5. Please note our summary for this horse may be incomplete as there may be other offspring and competition results that are missing from our records.

I asked Co Pilot to sum up AMO RACING LTD accounts as at end of December 2024, here is the interpretation of those accounts, the accounts for 2025 will not be submitted until December 2026.

Liquidity: Improved cash position but dwarfed by short-term creditors (£109m).

Solvency: Negative equity — reliant on external funding or shareholder support.

Profitability: Ongoing losses despite asset growth.

Overall: Expanding operations but financially stretched — high turnover, high leverage, and deep accumulated losses.

Go bankrupt....get away with it... as is the norm.

Amo have had huge amounts of money from Apollo Global Management, one of the world's biggest private equity firms but that equity firm seemingly has its money secured against Joorabchian's racing and football businesses

Here is a summary of the stated objectives of Amo Racing and you judge for yourselves how successful to date they have been in meeting those objectives.

Amo Racing’s stated objective is to build a world‑class international racing and breeding operation, develop future stallions, compete at the highest level of global racing, and inject investment and excitement into British racing.

I wish AMO Racing well. I firmly believe a consortium of the well-established big boys eg Juddmonte, Shadwell, etc, ought to pool their resources together to work on a specific project to compete and marginalise that of Coolmore.

Coolmore is not good for horseracing.

Agreed ..

Aceform has more chance of winning than Amo

need to forget about their jockeys and concentrate on whos buying so many duds
for huge amounts of money. their buyers have a diabolical record

I think if Kia had a 2nd go he'd have gone for proven colts and mares of 3 yrs and older to establish a breeding enterprise with a regular source of revenue to negate expenses. This will allow a period of time for the venture to bear fruit.

Nevertheless, the income of Kia is easily procured with not much effort or hard graft.

Jockey choices are poor, trainer choice just seems wrong, purchasers just seem mad, none of it seems to have any thought.

I'd say he's been pretty unlucky in general. you can't say he hasn't tried everything. trainer ,jockey , bloodstock agent switches. He's not bidding 5mil against himself; plenty thought Poker could prove the second coming.

A house built on sand.

Which entity/entities bid against Kia at the auction? Kia did probably over-bid / spent on a few purchases. I hope the ownership of King Of Steel did not lull Kia into a false sense of horseracing and breeding.

Aiden o Brien and Coolmore.....

Amo has a partnership with Al Shabab where most of their interests lie in France.

I hope AMO manages to snag another freak like Frankel. I'd like to see a "David beating Goliath" phenomenon in the Sport Of King. This can only be good for the sport, supporters and punters. At the moment it's a blatant disregard of sportsmanship ie win at all costs eg a "professional" jockey aiding and abetting a behemoth to hinder an opposition and best horse in a Gp 1 race at Royal Ascot - the showcase of British Horseracing event.

Partying a 4.4M Gns purchase of theirs makes her debut tonight 7.11 Windsor.

you beat me to it penzance .

Schadenfreude aplenty no doubt if this goes belly up tonight.

Partying (11/8) finished 2nd to Waterford Castle (4/6).

Imagine spending 4.4 million on that donkey that ran at Windsor tonight. What a waste of money. Amo don't have one good horse. Who is buying these horses for them

I thought Kia explained it very well but maybe not

Not a bad riun from a lovely brood marr project .

Aug 13, 2026 -- 8:03PM, Hushwing. wrote:

Not a bad riun from a lovely brood marr project .

Cost 4.4 million and couldn't get near a 88 rated 0-10 handicapper maiden. What a lovely run !!

Nice to see a football agent getting screwed

I can’t stand all this millions staffed around highlighted every day…….remember Snaafi Dancer 12 big ones late eighties….

Who ever sold that that horse to them must be popping the champagne tonight laughing

aiming more duds than the terratorials

I think because he had some outsiders place in the derby ect he thought if he spent more he could crack the game, he may still think that but he is a million miles away from giving Coolmore sleepless nights.

Seems to think high price of millions at the sale is good for breeding…..62 horses unraced potential…..needs a bow echo type….

Hard ridden 2 out found little doesn’t bode well…..

Saratoga tomorrow could be a good result…..I wouldn’t have let ginger Dave take the ride tbh….

I thought he spoke very well yesterday about buying into these families . The dam of partying herself cost a million back in 2018!! She’s by Frankel and you certainly could see the attraction .
I still think he’s got there a nice enough filly with Hugh potential later in the paddocks .

Short odds to hit the bullseye,already had a derby second…..

They seem to use a variety of trainers, Tinkler has one running at Newmarket later.
It didn't get the best of rides lto, change of pilot.

Nice to see a football agent getting screwed

Exactly, its not like HIS hard earned going down the drain.

I wish them LUCK. I hope AMO does well in America tonight. Competition is extremely important in horseracing; punting is inextricably linked with horseracing. No punting, no horseracing.