I'm trying to decide whether i would rather be Pharoah, eating like a king and servicing a harem of hot mares ...

Or his owner Ahmed Zayat collecting $400,000 to $600,000 in stud fees each day.

Never mind, Zayat it is!

VERSAILLES, Ky. — He has put on some weight, 170 pounds to be exact, since sauntering off the racetrack and into what has to be the sweetest retirement in all of sports. American Pharoah, however, carries it well: There are no love handles, and his rich bay coat looks barely able to contain the muscles rippling beneath it.

His day starts at sunup with a breakfast of high-end, organic grains — the equine equivalent of kale and quinoa — and then his work starts in earnest at 7:30 each day. That’s when American Pharoah hooks a left out of the stallion barn and ambles down the path to the breeding shed. Waiting for him is a mare, but not any old nag.

No, securing one of the 160 or so spots on American Pharoah’s dance card this season requires a royal pedigree, an accomplished record as a racehorse and, most important, an ownership with the $200,000 required to have last year’s Triple Crown champion to “cover” (a nicer term than impregnate) its mare.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/sp...-too.html?_r=0