Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Travis Stone
Having a Triple Crown winner will not save horse racing.
Having a Triple Crown on the line does more for horse racing than most other events in the game throughout the year. Last year is a good example... Big Brown's Belmont versus Curlin almost all year.
And the thought that a TC winner will dumb-down the following years Triple Crown because "it won't likely happen again" is ridiculous.
|
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...e-crown-winner
Now what? Will mainstream America care any longer when a horse attempts to sweep the Triple Crown or will they say, "Well, it's been done, so it's no big deal anymore." As long as it seems an improbable, almost unattainable, quest, people will flock to Belmont Park hoping to be there when it is finally accomplished. Everyone wants to be a part of history.
Following the Triple Crown sweeps of Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed from 1973-'78, was there really that much buzz over Spectacular Bid's attempt in '79 or had people become blasé about it and were expecting it to happen again?