[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by CSC

You have to ask yourself why would Kong Kong based horses travel to the U.S when racing over there is lucrutive and logistically it would be a nightmare. To prove a point? They did ship to Dubai last year as I already noted, and did very well.

Nowhere have I said that they have to prove anything. Nowhere have I said that they should ship to other places. I'm only saying that in order for ME personally to consider them truly at the elite level of the world scene, that's what I'd need to see. Take a horse like Makybe Diva. She's done great racing down in Australia. Maybe one of that country's greatest ever. But I don't put her on the same level as a horse like Ouija Board, who traveled the world and took on the best and held her own. Or a horse like Pride who did the same thing. Just because I saw Invasor come here and be HOY, I'm not going to put Uraguayan racing on the top world level. Just because I saw Candy Ride, Paseana, and Bayakoa come over here and dominate doesn't mean that Argentinian racing is on par with the best racing in the world. Mister Frisky was one of Puerto Rico's greatest horses and came over here and was a grade one winner. Does anyone put PR racing on par with ours? A few isolated occurances by a few top horses over a period of years doesn't do it for me.