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Originally Posted by cmorioles

I agree about the sprints. The connections of top horses seem almost afraid to lose races these days and don't like to race horses into shape while losing. Nearly all the great ones lost multiple times, but today for whatever reason the big name connections see it as a black mark against the horse.

True and trainer win %'s werent the determining factor in who was good and who wasn't. I overheard a fairly big owner at Saratoga last summer tell his friend that he is sending horses to a guy who he doesn't consider to be a very good horseman but had a high win %. It is like only undefeated horses are any good. If horseracing was the NFL, the Patriots would have been retired after the Indy game because they had nothing left to prove and they wanted to go out undefeated.