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Originally Posted by easy goer
Breaking the previous record held by: Pearl Harbor.
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ouch!
i have to say i strongly disagree with something i read the other day from a breeder. he said that racing is to show who deserves to breed future generations.
i think that those on the track who win show that their SIRE is the one who deserves to breed future generations!! on track success means nothing regarding that horses future--but everything to his sires future. too many people have lost that point. citation and coal town showed everyone what bull lea could do--he was a top sire for years with good reason, he sired good horses. citation was a heck of a racehorse, but a dismal failure as a sire. had everyone gone to his daddy to breed they'd have been far better off.
it's amazing to me how many derby winners fail at stud, yet every year everyone makes a mad dash to get the winner for their farm. it's crazy.