Five New Grade I Races in 2007; Two Others Drop to Grade II

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by eurobounce

Heck make the three Grade I races worth $5mm each. But having 107 Grade I races is a total joke. Giving a horse a Grade I status like Wagon Limit and Seek Gold is ridiculous.

Seek Gold deserves Grade I status because he beat every horse in that field on THAT day. Are you saying that the Stephen Foster shouldn't be a Grade I because of one year with a fluky finish?

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Seek Gold deserves Grade I status because he beat every horse in that field on THAT day. Are you saying that the Stephen Foster shouldn't be a Grade I because of one year with a fluky finish?

I musta been absent the day in business class when the professor taught that you needed to destroy the ecomony of a sector in order to get it to really take off!!!

Originally Posted by oracle80

I musta been absent the day in business class when the professor taught that you needed to destroy the ecomony of a sector in order to get it to really take off!!!

You wouldnt destroy it....you would enhance it. Tell me one sector that has improved by throwing money at it. And maybe you were at home reading teh DRF the day they went over this issue.

Originally Posted by eurobounce

You wouldnt destroy it....you would enhance it. Tell me one sector that has improved by throwing money at it. And maybe you were at home reading teh DRF the day they went over this issue.

LOL!!!!
You have to be kidding right?
How about Nascar genius? Doh!!!

Originally Posted by oracle80

LOL!!!!
You have to be kidding right?
How about Nascar genius? Doh!!!

You have got to be kidding me with this one Oracle. NASCAR threw money at marketing. Investing in the marketing of the sport is vastly different from throwing money at the purse structure. If you took just the PURSE money and not the AWARD money in a race you will see a HUGE difference. A driver who finishes 1st in a race would only get about $65k-$75k (based on the purse). The rest of the money comes from the bonus program and 25% from TV revenue. If you look at the history of the PURSE money only in NASCAR you will find that NASCAR has actually decreased the dollars they contribute to the PURSE money. The money the drivers make in PURSES is nothing. They make the majority of the money from sponsors and the bonus program NOT THE PURSE MONEY.

You forget I live in INDY (the race car capital of the world--well use to be).

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Seek Gold deserves Grade I status because he beat every horse in that field on THAT day. Are you saying that the Stephen Foster shouldn't be a Grade I because of one year with a fluky finish?

No Cajun I am not saying that. I am saying that the field would have been totally different if the SF was only 1 of 3 Grade I races in 2006. Now if he beat a field of 12 horses then sure give him a Grade I status. However he did beat a field of 9. However, I think a field that included Lava Man, Invasor, Premium Tap instead of Love Of Money, MB Sea and Wiggins is a little more attractive.