Graded Earnings: Is there an alternative?

Originally Posted by whodey17

Think of it this way......you could have a horse race just once in one of the big three preps and that horse is in with just one race. My point is that this philosophy is bad for racing....Why on earth would we support a system that possibly encourages horses to race less often.

DOes it really encourage horses to race less often? It could equally be argued that it will encourage more horses to race, since those horses that haven race early in the season or have had poor results early on would be DISCOURAGED to try once more.

You have dug in your heels on this, but I am not sure it is as certain as you are making it out to be. I see your logic vis a vis the problem, but disagree w/ the conclusions you draw here.

Why not weight the earnings: 100% for GIII and GII; 60% for GI and 30% for ungraded stakes?

The only aberration in this years field that I see is BirdBird getting $600,000 for that Boyds Delta River Jackpot whatever. Not a good field, run at a slow time of year, etc.