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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
so if that is a problem, then what are all these other owners doing trying to win races? they may as well enter then in way above their heads for the sake of "competing."
damn right her campaign was mapped out to WIN, not to compete. no matter how much you want it to be otherwise, it is a business, plain and simple. and that business is winning races.
sorry if you wanted to see her up against males as a five year old. winning races is more important than the industry-wide standard of excellence: being sporting in the eyes of pgardn.
any smart owner on earth would agree, this business is about winning races, not about making people happy. ****, i don't even own horses and i can understand that.
boo hoo dude.
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Yes, you are exactly right. When I'm looking for a spot to run a horse, in general I look for the easiest spot with the biggest purse. If the horse is a really good horse, she is probably going to take on the best horses eventually and I would want her to. But I would want to map out a realtively easy schedule to get there. For example, even with a gelding like Lava Man, I think the owners have handled him perfectly the last few months. They have kept him on his home turf and won some big purses against moderate competition and now they will take on Bernardini in the $5 million race. There would have been no reason for them to ship back east and take on Bernardini in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. What for? They'll take him on in the $5 million race. There was no reason to try to face him sooner. That is the same type of strategy I would use with almost any horse. That might not be a great example because it was pretty much a no-brainer to run LM in the Pacific Classic and the Goodwood. That was pretty much just common sense. But from the way some people talk maybe not. Some fans almost sound like they would want to ship all over the country and look for the toughest spot every race. You obviously don't want to do that beacuse you want your horse to be 100% for the big race, which for LM is the BC Classic.