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Originally Posted by oracle80
Well I'd like you to find me the guys who wanna race on it. Sure the gyp trainers and guys who train cheap horses held together with bandages and a paryer wanna race on it because to them they can jam the sore horses in more often. But the dog wags the tail, the tail doesn't wag the dog. This game, whether anyone likes it or not(and most don't) is predicated on the performance and success of the breeders and the breeding market. Noone can doubt that. WHy do you think people pay millions for horses who have virtually no chance ever of winning back that money on the track? Because they can make it on the back end in the shed. You wanna see this game go bad, and I mean REAL bad? Just go ahead and cause a catastrophic disruption in the breeding market and watch the devestation trickle down. Its quite simple, a healthy breeding market attracts more owners and means more money spent on horses which means more farms who are solvent and more trainers who have horses to train. You go and make 300-500 grand sires worthless and see what happens to the rest of the business, because quite frankly the American breeding market is predicated on speed. This is a serious matter.
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I know of at least one $500K stallion who won't be worthless: Storm Cat. His offspring and stallions who are sons of Storm Cat seemed to love the Polytrack. So far, the top sires on it are those who's progency seem to produce runners on both turf and dirt; not exclusively turf like the folks at TVG seem to think. |
