Originally Posted by ateamstupid

I understand your point, but the bottom line is that owners nowadays are so petrified of losing with their good horses that there would never be a situation in which the "top horses slug it out over the course of a few months," BC or no BC. What the BC does is ENSURE that everyone has to face everyone else eventually, if only for one day, and that's a positive, not a negative. You really think that without the BC, we'd see the top older males facing each other over and over in each Grade I all year long? I don't. I think we'd see the top five or six horses constantly ducking each other in order to get the easiest G-I wins available. The BC says "hey, if you want the ultimate accolades, you've gotta face everyone eventually," and if that relegates the JCGC to a prep race, so be it. That's not ruining racing, it's improving it.