What a difference a week makes, this time last week it was Your Song grabbing all the headlines in the sporting pages of the regular dailies.

He was about the best thing around since sliced bread; however, he has since gone stale after his dismal performance in the Doomben 10,000.

Once he had a high price tag on his head as a potential sire after winning the Group 1 B T C Cup, those with a vested interest in the horse should have seriously considered a start in Doomben 10,000.

It was a hiding to nothing, and they copped the hiding, he had nothing more to prove, he had the Group 1 safely locked away, the risk was too great to punt on another, from that wide starting gate.

It was nothing more than commercial suicide as there is no rehabilitation, now with the breeding season commencing in September.

Your Song still has a future as a sire; however, he would have looked better going out as a winner.