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Originally Posted by boswd
This is very true. Many West Coasters feel the industry looks down their noses at their stakes races and feel there is a major bias. Trust me I am a frequent poster on the Del Mar site and there is a huge East Coast inferiority complex out there.
There may be a bias but it is based on the fact that the East Coast Stakes races are much, much older, many well over a hundred years and are the foundation of the sport today.
Also it has a lot to do with the fact that on the East Coast you will see many different horses from different circuits ship to each other races. For example you will see the Ky based horses and the NY based horse and mid Atlantic based horse all ship to each others major races. Therefore racing against stronger and different competition. In So Cal you pretty much have the same horses, outside an occasional shipper from the East, competing with each other.
It's just my opinion of why East Coast Stakes races are weighed more heavily.
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I agree with you on all points. I would just like to add in Mineshaft and his connections here. They took considerable heat for not running their horse in a West Coast Breeders' Cup; it was not the shipping, but the destination that was the problem. The connections just do not run in California. The connections are East Coast in their thinking; they are old guard who thought winning Grade I's at Belmont spelled champion. Until rather recently champions were crowned there. Slew O' Gold is an example of that; he almost owned fall championship races at Belmont and he had the Eclipses to prove it. I would be very surprised to see Bernardini run on the West Coast, if he runs next year. The Breeders' Cup is in the East next year anyway.