What would you change?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Sniper,
how did they raise money for the BC and its fund?
You charge a nomination fee to the foals to participate in the added money to stakes races. The money raised in the fund is added to the purses in the graded races in top of what the track puts up, and horses who arent nominated to the program don'tget too compete for the added money, only the base purse by the track. Everyone would wanna nominate their foals to increase their sales and racing worth!!! The Bc has already done this successfully, why would it not work in what I am describing?

I like your idea too. If they could get people to raise the money for it then I'm all for it but I'm a little skeptical that we could ever see purses like that from getting enough people to nominate. It worked with the BC but will it work again?

The problem is the people retiring horses most rapidly aren't the ones that need money. Bernardini, Henny Hughes, Aussie Rules, etc weren't retired because the purse money for racing was too low. They were retired because the owners are anxious to get that next big stallion. I don't see anything short of not allowing horses to stand stud until 5 preventing that from happening. And I fully recognize that there is zero chance of ever seeing that happen. However, if you put me in charge of racing for one day and allowed me to make one change that is the change I would make.