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Old 09-20-2007, 06:39 PM
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Interesting editorial by Dan Liebman in The Blood-Horse. Read the whole article, then, comments?
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"For baby boomers, 60 is the new 40; for airlines, 6 a.m. is the new 8 a.m.; and, according to a recent advertisement in The Blood-Horse, for the Thoroughbred industry, 6% stakes winners from foals is the new “gold standard.”

"Let me be the first to say that if it is true that 6% stakes winners from foals is what we expect the very best of our stallions to achieve, then this breeding industry has gone to hell in a handbasket."

"Who is to blame?"

"The breeders, that’s who."
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