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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
What I'm saying is that if there is a horse who is a standout in its division, it's not that hard to win 3 races in a row if the horse has plenty of rest between each race. It is obviously 100X tougher to win the TC than it would be for some grade I mare to win 3 in a row running once every 6 weeks. Three year olds are obviously a little more fragile and that is part of it, but the spacing is huge too. The spacing is huge and the distance of the Belmont is huge. I'm not advocating this but if the TC races were once every 5 weeks and the Belmont was only 1 1/4 miles, the number of TC winners would rise dramatically. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
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why would we want the number of tc winners to rise dramatically? many think it draws more fans each year to see if it'll happen, that when/if it does happen, that it will actually produce less interest following it.
i don't get the pearl clutching over it.
if 3 yo's are more fragile, why would you want to make it easier for one to win this, thereby giving him a bigger following in the shed, thus breeding more fragility? makes no sense.