Whatever else the Good Ba Ba-John Yuen Se-kit-Andreas Schutz situation was, it has made for considerable dinner table discussion over the issue, even the prospect, of trainers' rights to compensation for the performance of horses which leave the stable.
Dare we clich? it - a veritable Pandora's Box has been prised open.
Many regard it as just plain cheeky for Schutz to ask for a payment to welcome a horse - or three - into the stable, but that simplifies the situation too much.
Good Ba Ba was a horse he had developed over more than two years into a world champion. A multiple Group One winner, a history-maker. Yet a horse that was moved on the owner's whim despite that success.
We don't argue with an owner's right to move a horse, nor do the Jockey Club rules. He pays the bills and, reason or no reason, is free to move his horse.
That is a right Schutz himself understands, as no compensation was sought when the move occurred or when Good Ba Ba won the Hong Kong Mile for Derek Cruz.