The last time I commented on the Green Monkey was several months ago.  At the time he was a $16MM two year old purchase that I suggested may never run a race. 

Now he is a $16MM purchase who has run once, and got his doors blown off by several widening lengths, finishing a flat third. 

The purchase price I get - kind of - because after all it was an auction.  Find the right two people and any object has infinite value.  It is the same rationale that explains why someone got $28,000 for a ten year old grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary burnt into it.  Seems silly to me but more than one person really wanted that sandwich, and that horse.

What I don’t get is the fact that usually savvy bettors at Belmont Park plunked down enough stupid money on the monkey’s nose to send him to post at 2:5.  Hardly the same economic model as a horse auction.