[Riot]

People with ready big money have been trying to buy a Kentucky Derby win for a long time, right up to post time.

I don't recall folks dissing Pegram and Baffert when they started out. The other big buyers of the 1980's. People who appeared on the scene with freeflowing money, and vowed to be in the Derby winners circle in a year or two, buying up all the most promising stock.

Heck, those folks contributed alot to keeping the horse world financially sound. Longtime breeders before that sold their best Derby prospects unemotionally for the cold hard cash all the time, too.

IEAH is far from being the first to go this route.

Sure, I root hardest for the small guys, the regular horsemen, the hardworking day in and day out guys who have been in the sport forever, and don't have freeflowing cash to help them out. I root for them to hit the dream.

But I don't care about IEAH buying up parts of Derby trail horses, especially when the owners of those horses are choosing to sell off part of that dream, rather than keep it solely for themselves.

Congrats to the owner, congrats to IEAH, good luck with it, because everyone knows the odds are against you.

IEAH promises their investors a ride at the big show, at the highest levels, and they apparently deliver to their clients. Obviously easier to buy into that level, if you are a racing club, than try and develop it yourself from 40 yearlings.

Some people root for teams in sport. Some can't seem to enjoy sports unless they have an evil villain team to hate and root against.

I am sorry to see horse racing more noticably go that way. Less classy, and less fun, IMO, to root against someone, than root for someone.