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Originally Posted by Danzig
yeah, i know.
it's just that many think horses should be around longer, but no one seems able or willing to come up with incentives to actually keep horses on the track. obviously you have to make racing more lucrative-right now purses can't compete with potential stud fees.
i was just throwing it out there...
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The Breeders Cup was supposed to be such an incentive. You didn't win it this year, you could come back at try to win next year, supposedly. But that was in the era of 40 mare books, so that even a $50K stud fee (only a couple of stallions had a published fee higher than that in 1984) was on a par with the purse money that could be won. No one imagined 150 foal crops.