Originally Posted by moodwalker

Euro,

Earlier in the thread I stated that I don't care what they want the cheap horses to run on. It doesn't bother me that the surface is at Turfway per se.

What concerns me is the possibility of it moving to the larger circuits that hold Grade One races and attract genuine stakes performers. I don't think this business model will work if that is the plan.

If I didn't make that clear earlier, I apologize. For Turfway's sake, I hope the rubber track does help their business.

But in a perfect world, I wouldn't mind seeing the numbers of races go down and the bottom level claimers and bad horses phased out of the game.

Less races, higher quality, higher purses, healthier horses, better and accountable trainers.

Just because some guy wants to be a trainer, and some other guy wants to be an owner, doesn't mean that it should be so. A cheap, sore, and slow horse shouldn't have an arena where he is allowed to run in my opinion.

While it may not be the most popular opinion to have, I believe that American Racing suffers from four major problems.

1. Too many races
2. Too many racetracks
3. Too little money to go around
4. Too many Shi tty horses

I think there needs to be a solution to these problems, and when the money runs out the smaller tracks will go out of business and get out of the way.

Slots and state-bred incentive programs are like a life-support system, the brain is dead but the body keeps pumping along.

Let racing stand on its own merits, I say.

And separate the wheat from the chaff.