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Originally Posted by PatCummings
This was discussed at the conference in the same presentation, and while I don't recall the exact numbers, the trends showed across all age groups, the percentages of horses within a foal crop racing at ages three through nine was down 10-20% since 2003.
It's not just the change in how much racing there is, or field size, but that fewer horses within each crop are making it to races, and actually hanging around.
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Fewer foals doesn't have to mean smaller fields.