Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Yeah, but Oracle, businesses go down the toilet every day of the year-- it's part of a capitalistic economy. Breeding has only been the name of the game for the past what, 20 or 30 years? And yet somehow the sport managed for centuries before it. Yes, if for some reason there becomes a major push for Polytrack horses, some breeding farms will go down, while other ones will spring up. If 300,000 to 500,000 sires become worthless, then the very small number of people benefiting from AP Indy and Storm Cat will suffer financially. But AP Indy and Storm Cat are going to die someday anyway, aren't they?

I can see where it will make for a difficult few years as breeding people adapt to the shift in the market, but that's capitalism. The smart and the lucky will succeed and the dumb and the unlucky will fail. That's business. I can't see how a new track surface will lead to the gloom and doom for racing in its entirety that you seem to fear. (Always happy to be shown the light, but right now I don't see it.)