Crist: The BC deserves NOT to have RA

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Originally Posted by tector

The bug some of you people have up your collective asses about Jess Jackson is pretty telling. Your petty jealousies say more about you than him.

My primary point is we've all been down this road before with Jess Jackson. Last year, it was Curlin versus Big Brown that didn't happen despite all the clamoring for it. (And no, I don't completely absolve the IEAH crowd for that.)

Right now, there are three really first-rate horses racing over a distance of ground in this country: Rachel, Zenyatta, and Quality Road. I've only expressed my skepticism that Jackson will allow Rachel to face either of the other two. You want to give him a pass over the Breeders' Cup because of the synthetic surface, fine. However, the Travers is a championship-type race (the so-called "forth leg" of the Triple Crown for 3YOs) being contested on dirt track at a historic venue with the other two winners of the Triple Crown races also likely to contest the race. It's been 27 years since such a confluence of events happened. That would be a truly historic race for which national television coverage is already scheduled (SportsCenter at Saratoga, I believe). And certainly good for the sport.

I suspect that most racing fans would rather see that matchup than an untelevised matchup with the likes of Macho Again or Dry Martini in the Woodward, especially where it would get lost in the shuffle of the opening week of the NFL season.