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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite
Here we all are ... doing what we have become accustomed to doing ... waiting ... and waiting ... and waiting ... for something interesting to happen at the top tier of the sport we all love.
Weeks and weeks and weeks go by ... without any sighting of our best horses bursting out of a starting gate.
I did a bit of research a few weeks ago into the performances of past champion fillies ... and revealed that most of them were making 12 to 15 starts per campaign ... and some made several more.
Not that many years ago ... a horse who made fewer than 10 starts in a given year would not even be considered for a championship because of lack of activitiy.
Now ... we're thrilled when the best horses make four starts in a year ... and absolutely ecstatic when they're asked to make a heroic total of six.
Here we are in a banner year for quality race horses ... the likes of which haven't been seen for many a moon ... and what do we get ... weeks and weeks and weeks of waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.
We're the fanatics ... and we're being bored to sleep. Just imagine how this plays with the general public.
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All that really matters is how the bettors feel about it. As long as the bettors like it, that's all that matters. I'm a relatively big bettor. I'm not saying whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but if I like a horse
alot, I'll bet somwehere between $500 and $1000 on him.
Didn't you say that you're not even a bettor? It only matters what the bettors think. They're the ones who keep the sport going.
If I wanted to check on how a candidate was going to do in an election, I would poll people who were going to vote. I wouldn't poll people who are not going to vote. That wouldn't give me any information.
I'm not putting you down. My point is that if you are only a fan and not a bettor, then what is important to you may be entirely different from what is important to a bettor. As a bettor, I want to see horses have plenty of time between races. Then I have more confidence that the horse will fire. I'm usually not going to make a big bet on a horse that I feel is coming back too soon even if I think the horse is the best horse in the race, the reason being that I will not have confidence that the horse will run his best if he hasn't had enough rest.