3 year old filly Eclipse?

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

It's not the BC's fault that the top horses get together so infrequently during the year that the BC is often the only place they will meet each other. The BC is not one of them.

With the advent of all these BC-sponsored races, BC Preview Days, and various "preps" designed to give individual stars an easy race heading into the big day, isn't the BC (directly or not) at least partially responsible for diluting all the big horses so that they can avoid each other throughout the year?

Not to mention a big reason why trainers campaign their horses the way they do nowadays is because they have the BC as the ultimate goal. That's why you got guys like Ron Ellis and Bobby Frankel telling you about how they're gonna get such and such a horse to the BC after it wins a Grade 2 at Santa Anita in February.