![]() ![]() I'd prefer that to be the case, too – it's nice when products feel a bit more connected to the places/people that produce them. I certainly understand disappointment over these products not being born & raised, designed & made in Canada. someone simply doesn't want to support Chinese factories, or someone simply wants to see more styling updates from a brand? And, as someone who hasn't known about this brand for long, did some of the novelty wear off to those who have been following along for a while, or did innovation truly, tragically slow to a crawl? Maybe all of this and more is in the mix?Īt any rate, if for a moment we focus only on the design & quality of the product: is it that much worse than what came before? So, am I just blissfully, ignorantly pleased? Is this thing somehow booby-trapped, bound for catastrophe after a handful of wears?Īfter seeing this post – Is Veilance on life support? – and other posts like it, and the ensuing comments, I couldn't help but wonder: Are the critiques of Veilance in its current state born of deep experience with the brand/company/product? Does someone really have the 411 on everything from the internal state of the company, to the output & labor practices the factories they use? Or, are they the musings of armchair entrepreneurs who don't understand supply chains, or the quality some Chinese factories are capable of (this is reddit, after all)? Are these just perspectives tinged (understandably) with personal preferences, i.e. All in all, I consider it something of a luxury purchase and don't regret it. zipper pulls/sliders are.not a complaint, though. Only thing that struck me as strange is how small the hardware, i.e. My intuition says it's overpriced for what it is, but I like the design, like the fit, love the feel of the material, the construction seems solid, and the water resistance is great. I admittedly just bought my first Veilance jacket (an Isogon MX in black, for ~20% off, made in China) and, pretty simply, I quite like it. He won the Thrifty Spring Champion Stakes (AUS-IT) and MGA Insurance Brokers Spring Stakes (AUS-IT) in 2008.I don't exactly have a horse in this race, per se – just have an inquiring mind. Racing first for Woodlands Stud Syndicate and then Sheikh Mohammed, Sousa was trained by Peter Snowden to win three of 12 starts and earn $432,148. Consigned to the Inglis Easer sale in 2007, the colt was purchased by Woodlands Stud for US$347,046 from the Trelawney Stud consignment. Sousa, a son of top Coolmore stallion Galileo, was bred in New Zealand by L. Trained by Saeed bin Suroor for most of his career, Jalil won four of 16 starts, including the Sakhee Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al Maktoum Challenge-Round 3 (UAE-II) in 2008, and earned $345,788. Ferguson purchased Jalil for $9.7 million from the Mill Ridge Sales consignment at the 2005 Keeneland September yearling sale. “Sheikh Mohammed has selected these two stallions as they both are exceptional physical specimens, each boast stellar classic bloodlines, and both performed with great credit at the highest level.”īred in Kentucky by Martin and Pam Wygod, Jalil was produced from the multiple grade I winner Tranquility Lake, a daughter of Rahy who has also produced multiple grade I winner After Market and grade I winner Courageous Cat. “Sheikh Mohammed is eager to support the emergence of the Chinese Thoroughbred industry and is particularly pleased he can contribute to the development of the Chinese racehorse,” John Ferguson, Shiekh Mohammed’s bloodstock advisor, said in a statement. According to a Darley announcement, both horses will be managed by Junling Sun, who graduated from Darley’s Flying Start program. Jalil, a group II-winning son of Storm Cat, will stand at Lisui Farm in Beijing, and Sousa, a group I winner in Australia, will stand at Ordos Farm in Inner Mongolia. Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley operation has announced well-bred stakes winners Jalil and Sousa will enter stud in China in 2012 in an effort to bolster that country’s emerging Thoroughbred industry.
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