BC Mile - George Washington

Originally Posted by The Bid

Euro horses as a whole are superior animals to what we have over here. On grass its not even close, we arent in the same league. Why would GW not come over here and trounce a field in the mile?

Oh thats complete rubbish and nonsense. Piffle and bladerdash.
American racing is almost completely predicated on speed and dirt, or both.
The big purses are there, the huge residual breeding money is there, so thats what folks focus on over here. You ever see the stud fees of grass horses over here? Even the good ones? You can't give em away.
Everything is a product of money. And because the heavy emphasis is on dirt racing, thats what our finest trainers excel at and try to succeed with.
Turf racing is real hard to love here as an owner or trainer. They don't write that many grass races, you have to sweat out getting into the field when they do(they overflow quite a bit), or you get rained off the grass. Its just not option number one over here.
A trainer I know says that the reason the Euros have never won a Derby over here is quite simple, they don't have the slightest idea how to do it. Their record in BC dirt races is also HORRIBLE.
If you think those guys over there are rocket scientists I beg to differ with you. Their training programs consist of gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop. They don't run fast fractions over there and the race is won in the lane by the horse who is most fit with a burst of speed.
Now, who do you think is more skilled? The guy who gallops the **** out of a horse each day? Or the guy who has to get one to attend a half mile in 45 and change and KEEP ON GOING 9f or 10f? Are you ****ing kidding me?
If their horses are so much better(on a whole, not just on grass) why do they win so few dirt races over here when shipped in despite the lofty price tags and dirt breeding that many have?
Know why? Its because their trainers don't have the foggiest notion of how to train a horse to rip off a half mile in 45 and still keep on going.
This is just nonsense.