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Originally Posted by Travis Stone
It's not a perfect system, but luckily they didn't write it into Kentucky State law and can adjust as necessary.
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Which is precisely why we must complain and bitch and moan about the errors and inequities that they have created. CDI is run by people who are more or less robots with only one goal in mind, making more money for CDI which in itself isnt a bad thing but unfortunately the side effects of many of their decisions often arent exactly positive news for the sport of horseracing.
I too believe that it made no sense that the Delta race was far more important than the vast majority of other Derby preps and that filly races counted as much as open races or that those hated sprint stakes were worth the same as 2 turn races. However I also believe that the Del Mar Futurity and Hopeful are important enough events at our biggest meets that they should be included and the fact that they are sprints is immaterial since at that point on the calandar there is no need to go any further. I believe that many of the fall stakes will simply become even more marginalized, often resembling nothing more than NW1x allowance races evn more than they have been recently, further dominated by the larger outfits who have no choice but to start some of their 2 yo's early simply because of the numbers. I believe that the points system is far too skewed in favor of the big 7 races in that the top 2 finishers of those races all all but guaranteed to get in the field regardless of prior credentials. It is possible (unlikely but possible) that we have different winners of all of 15 of the "Championship season" races which means that those horses all get in, leaving only 5 spots left with the 7 2nd place finishers of the "2nd leg of the series" fighting it out for the other spots. With this setup the races held before March are almost worthless except for those last 5 spots. Is that what we want to do? Have the races from September to January only matter to a handful of horses who lost their last race? Is this likely to happen? No but when being 3rd in the Spiral stakes or Sunland Park Derby is as valauable as winning the BC Juvy or Champagne or even the Holy Bull or Champagne or Norfolk you are going to run into issues. Grade 1 2 yo races run over a distance of ground should get way more respect than some race run at Sunland Park or in Dubai.
The TC has gotten to be so big that it overshadows everything else in racing. Believing that the list of 10 point races wont be affected in a negative fashion with this current system is myopic. We saw what the BC did to the racing calandar especially in the Fall. To think that this wont have a similar impact on so many historically important races is crazy.