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Originally Posted by Cardus
I do not have an answer to BTW's question -- either specifically or generally -- but since both Triple Crown winners after Secretariat were not retired after their three-year-old seasons, perhaps the deal for Secretariat -- which according to Penny Chenery was spurred by her father's estate tax burden -- did not set in motion today's current practice. Maybe the answer resides somewhere in the 1980s, during the back end of the yearling sales boom.
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I agree and I think two things happened....and one of them was the birth of Storm Cat.