thing is, the perception is there that the horses overseas are better...than you hear things like what they said at the arlington million this year, that euros have won 1/3 of the millions. that leaves us with the other 2/3's. but if you asked anyone casually to guess the ratio. i bet they'd think it was skewed far more towards the euros.
there's also the fact that we don't ship over there...but why would anyone go there??? plenty of top notch racing here, with purses to match. we aren't afraid to ship, horses go to japan and dubai every year. but the $ is there.

hawk wing was a tremendous horse--gave the single best performance in europe that year--he's a ky bred. so was nebraska tornado. sadler's wells, every year at the top of the sires list--he's by northern dancer. so many bloodlines over there are similar to here, with northern dancer everywhere....look at the race geo washington won the other day, the QEll...top three finishers were all by danzig stallions.