I wish I could have
seen the article. But when I referenced the link it was gone.
In a perfect world, or should I say my perfect world.....Yes all the stars should stay until at least their the five year old season is over. Like my freshman year at Fordham when a spent more time on the train from the Bronx to Queens than I did in class...alydar, affirmed, exceller, seattle slew etc....Quiet Little Table, who ran in every stake in NY he was eligible for) , oh and if I don't put Forego in this post that old cheese Don Meyers might actually come out of the ground and hunt me down and my favorite OVERSKATE who for the loss of a shoe could have pulled off one of alltime biggest upsets/dorm parties ever.
There have been some nice three year olds in the past couple of years but I can state in my opinion no horse can prove greatness in one season especially the 3yo season. Until a horse, can prove itself with its elders, or when it is an elder, face all comers....that is a true champion.
As for the complaints about the fellows from Dubai, I believe that some of what I read is correct, but it is also correct about some of the owners in the US and Canada.
By the that was 1978 and I was 17 years old
I later chased the dream and spent five years on the backstretch which I would not trade for anything and would go back in a heartbeat if a could afford another horse.
Racing writers are people who you need to make your own decisions on. Some are good and honest, some are as skewed as so far to themselves, I wouldn't trust there mothers.
One drf idiot fixed himself a trip to the old world series of horse racing at penn national by dropping his hidden ownership horse just to make sure he got the trip. yep he still works for them. And I haven't trusted a word he's written since.
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