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Originally Posted by MisterB
Sorry, you already missed the best racing. You can't find a race track that can card a race over a mile on dirt now a days. I blame the greedy breeders that breed the bad one time wonders who race 3 times and retire. Then the owners are sucked in to pay enormous prices for their off spring, who by the way was retired do to injury. Then they start all over again, breeding one time wonders.
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that along with the drugs has caused this. plus, they worry about losing too much. i started getting into racing in the 70's. the track was down the street when i was a kid. horses ran longer distances, a longer schedule and a longer career. the great ones lost and shook it off..they did not go into hiding or "cherry pick" the soft spots as much. there was less money and less choices of tracks. someone mentioned creating interest in the sport. thats hard to maintain when the best horses retire or spend most of the year avoiding each other until that horse racing killer called the breeders cup....this is not football. having some stupid "super bowl" of horse racing kills the rivalries that actually made the game great.
06-10-2010, 06:48 AM
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