Breeders' Cup; some thoughts

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Listen you said that you had an event similar to the breeders Cup. You dont. The races you mentioned are nice races but hardly the equal of the Breeders Cup especially in terms of monetary value. You yourself noted that you did not know much about the participants yet managed to rundown each race and the event as a whole. The Dubai World Cup is a pretty good meeting no?

Nice races?!? Are you really that ignorant? Newsflash - most owners across the Atlantic don't care about the Breeders' Cup; they care about winning the Arc, or the Abbaye, or the Moulin, which have pretty good purses, too. If they come to the BC, it is usually as an afterthought, or as a means of redemption for a poor run (didn't win the prestige race, go for the cash). Sometimes a sportsman sends his/her top-class horse to run, but previous experience has shown that which horses adapt to US conditions is a bit of a lottery and some don't care to take the chance since it cannot improve the horses' standing.