Crist on the Farcical World Cup

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Originally Posted by Kasept

That's a function of the calendar. Breeders' Cup is run at an ideal time of the year for North American horses and as a coda to Euro season. The Austal-Asian horses have their own agenda at that time. World Cup comes at an OK time for North Americans if connections are specifically pointing for it seeing as it comes at the beginning of the season 'here'.

I understand and I agree. The question did get me thinking about with Japan though? Don't they run on a similiar calendar as N/A racing? We've at least attempted to send some of our popular horses (Lava Man, Summer Bird, etc.) to run in the Japan Cup, but I can't remember a Japanese horse attempting to run in the Breeders' Cup.