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Originally Posted by King Glorious
What difference does it make? If they brought in new fans that only tuned in to watch them again and don't watch anymore because they aren't racing, how is that helping the sport? I thought that you argument was that she is good for racing and could bring in more fans that might stay as fans of the sport and not just fans of hers. If your argument is that she'll bring her own fans, then it won't matter if she's racing at the BC or at Suffolk.
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You said that they didnt draw fans. What races were they supposed to draw fans to since they never raced beyond the TC? Wasnt there a record crowd at Smarties Belmont?
How else do you raise the awareness level of your product if you dont participate in the most widely available race? How else can thoroughbred racing be taken serious when it cant get its biggest star to run in its biggest events? Since when is a series of races that matches up the best horses and horses from across the world all on one weekend a bad thing? The Fall meet at Belmont is never going to be the same simply because horses arent campaigned the same way. A coordinated stakes program leading up to a year end finale would better than what we have now but to think that we can simply just purge the BC from the schedule and pick up again from 1983 is silly. Before the BC there was fragmnted voting on the year end awards. The fact that the system of electing eclipse awards is broken doesnt mean we should scrap the BC. Just as we can't expect new fans to storm the sport because we have a super horse to market. But to say that the additional attention that a horse like RA would attract wouldn't be a positive is baseless.