Rachel to Monmouth on July 24...

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Welcome to 90's were have you been? tear.. You ever try to sell to walmart or Target? You ever try to establish yourself in a market?

Horse racing and integrity your kidding right.. How many fn cheats are exposed a year? The friggin trainer of the super draw(Rachel) has been busted 394 times for drugs. Horses getting taken down by stewards without explaination. Jockeys attack each other during races. Trainers send horses to slaughter and owners that own 150k a session stallions starve there stock and go to Jail. Please you are worried about making a time and date for people to be entertained and smile.. Good lookin out

Those are seperate issues.

The reason that the Triple Crown works is because people desire to win those races. It seems as though that series and the BC to a lesser degree are the only important races left. Virtually every trainer of horses in the TC series would love to see the races spaced a little differently and almost none of them have horses suited to go as far as the races are written. Yet they continue to show up for them. When was the last time a TC race had a 5 horse field? It works because people have no choice but to run under the conditions given. That doesnt mean that every classic race is a classic but you can feel pretty secure knowing that winning one means something.

But this idea that horses dont have to run against top competition to be horse of the year, that the historically signifigant races are passed over for made for one horse events, that handicaps are made a mockery of because of the desire to prop up a popular horses record, that an owner can dictate the date and distance of a race that others are paying to run in as well, is well disturbing. It is one thing if baseball players are taking steroids. it is another if the league is handing them out.

The sport is crumbling and RA running in the Delaware Hdcp or Ruffian isnt going to change that. But the pandering to RA continues down the path that makes important races less important, makes competition between top horses rarer and lines the pockets of those who need it the least. Sounds like a winner.