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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Which should drop the avg # per starts. More horses = more inferior horses= less starts
The increase in size of foal crop did more damage than anyone ever seems to realize. If you triple the major leagues to 90 teams dont you think the overall quality of player would go down? Wouldn't the overall quality of play suffer? Then why would it be any different when a great number inferior horses who would not have been bred or bred infrequently are thrown into the gene pool? Shouldn't the racing suffer?
Unlike people, thoroughbreds are not a natural breed. It is a man made breed which suffers when the selectivity of breeding stock is lowered like it was in the 70's. The breed will not ever fully recover because there is too much money at stake to eliminate much of what is wrong in modern day breed to the market practices.
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I tend to agree with this. There is way too much racing. They could close many tracks and they should. Asia(Hong Kong/Japan) races only 4 days a week on a limited number of tracks and I believe they always have massive fields. They also have stronger medication policies.