Is This Really the Best We Have?

[SniperSB23]

The only idea I have ever heard that could help solve the problem is to not allow any horse to stand stud until they were 5 years old. Unfortunately there is about as good a chance of that happening as there was for Bluegrass Cat running as a 4yo.

[Gander]

This is the only meaningful post on this thread. Thanks Merasq!

this thread has not helped my hangover one bit...i find myself agreeing with king g AND dixie in the space of 5 minutes and my head is spinning (but if sun king is a sprinter u better gettahold of zito asap )-later gaters

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

The only idea I have ever heard that could help solve the problem is to not allow any horse to stand stud until they were 5 years old. Unfortunately there is about as good a chance of that happening as there was for Bluegrass Cat running as a 4yo.

Agree completely, Sniper. Restricting breeding is not unheard of. They do not allow artificial insemination, for example. Yet whenever the idea of restricting breeding until a horse is 5 is brought up, people say it wouldn't be fair to the owners/breeders. Meanwhile, the sport seems to be in a downward spiral that will eventually do in the owners/breeders anyway. Or maybe it will be reduced to the sheiks racing against each other in the deserts of the Middle East.

--Dunbar