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Originally Posted by somerfrost
You really seem to be in love with your stat on number of foals in a crop...I think your thinking is a bit simplistic...and wrong! True there were fewer foals per year but there were also fewer races, fewer tracks...the "hotbed" of racing was the east coast especially NY and MD, and there was sanity in the breeding shed. Today, breeding is about speed and producing precocious horses that often are retired before their 4th birthday. I submit that 100 well bred horses will be more competitive, particularly when forced to face each other than 1000 horses bred from unsound lines in a time when candidates for HOY can race constantly in grade one races and never face each other!
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I think you are totally wrong in assuming that all of the handfull of horses bred back than were all "well bred."