Crazy Ideas

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The truth is that when racing 2 year olds, financially it is more important to cull your horses that cant run instead of actually earning any money by racing them. Something like 11% of the purse money is for 2 year olds. It just makes the process too long and costly to be holding onto horses for 3 years before they have any chance to earn. The training expense will kill you.

THis make perfect sense. This explains a whole lot that I did not consider about the business end. Sorry for all the probing (stabbing). Those maiden Sp Wt. purses are fairly hefty. But then options start closing down for the majority.