Nice win by Flashy Bull

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Here's a question.......where did it really start? I mean, we used to have good horses, with at least reasonable regularity. Now, it's just an absolute farce.......a masquarade ball if you will. NW3Xs going to the ball dressed as Grade 1 winners and all the misinformed go " oh my. " And some fools bite, and not only buy into these charlatans, but breed their mares to them as well. And then the breed gets just a little worse.....and it goes on and on.

So who were the real initial frauds that started to substantially permeate the breed to really get the ball of mediocrity rolling? Who were these subpar 2YOs or 3YOs that were given absurd stud deals and force fed down the throats of the nouveau riche who wanted to get inside this game and were subsequently fleeced out of their dollars while buying two headed yearlings because they thought it would give them a better chance to win a photo?

I want the names......and I want them now!

I don't think it was a bunch of frauds or semi-lousy 2 & 3 year olds. I do think the deal made for Secretariat shortly after the Belmont started the movement toward retiring very good horses early for big money.

Maybe if O Phipps had lost the coin flip he would have gotten Secretariat and things would have been different.