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Originally Posted by Kasept
This is a central point in the wrong-headedness of renaming stakes. Whether it's naming this race for Zenyatta, or let's say the Kilroe Mile after Bobby Frankel, you effectively diminish the accomplishments of the previous moniker-holder and quash the intended honor of the entire process. It demonstrates complete and utter disregard for the history of the sport. As I said last night, by doing this, it says that when a horse comes along better than Zenyatta in 20 years, they'd paint over Zenyatta too... It's a self-defeating action that cheapens what should be your most sacrosanct events. It's pathetic.
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As goes with most folks this day in time -
history means nothing. What have you done for ME lately is all that matters.
This is the main reason why I know longer have the love for motorsports that I once loved, they have seemed to forget what helped get them, as an industry, to today.