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[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Kasept

That's been discussed. Turf writer Gary West has been a proponent of that concept. But it doesn't seem fair to the connections pointing for races (especially 2+3yo stakes) to 'lose' quality of black type when there's no way to know how the foes are going to turn out medium/long term.

Very true. I brought up the idea of grading races after they are run to several trainers in the late 80s. One of them said basically the same thing you say here. Another thing to consider is that it would further decrease the few meetings of top horses we have now. As it stands, we know which races are the best ones and where the best horses should be. Taking grades off would cause more trainers to handpick their schedule, claim their horse is the best, and say the competition should come to them.