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[deltagulf]

Originally Posted by moodwalker

No German horse who stands at stud can have raced on any medication also from what I understand. This includes Mares who are bred.

Probably the best in the world at holding the breed to a higher standard.

I am rooting for them to win with Quijano on World Cup night, that horse is a winner.

That would be a Breeder's Cup Turf and a Dubai Sheema Classic within two years for German breds.

i am rooting also for quijano then maybe here in the states, somebody with some power in this industry can see that these horses don't have to be on drugs to perform at any level of compitition.

[Scurlogue Champ]

Originally Posted by deltagulf

i am rooting also for quijano then maybe here in the states, somebody with some power in this industry can see that these horses don't have to be on drugs to perform at any level of compitition.

I pray he wins.....by open lengths if at all possible.

You wonder if a horse like that even would understand if he didn't finish first in a race.

I think it has only happened to him once in his first start if I am reading correctly.

[Scurlogue Champ]

Originally Posted by Cardus

I'm certain that I had posted somewhere in this forum many months ago that if I had my choice, I would purchase a German bred horse, for it has above average inherent stamina and is the product of a well regulated system.

The Germans particularly, and the Europeans generally, do things the right way vis-a-vis breeding.

Basically, everywhere outside the United States breeding is handled differently.

agreed on all points

[Dunbar]

It's probably been said before, but the whole breeding/racing mis-alignment smacks of a huge pyramid scheme. You find 150 people to send you $50,000 to breed to your horse. You tell each of them that he/she can take the foal, and when it grows up there will be 150 people who will send them $50,000/year to breed. And so on.

Just like a pyramid scheme, a few people are making a lot of money, but most of the people must be losing.

I believe that sooner or later this bubble has to pop. It just doesn't make economic sense. There is not enough stakes money to support the current inflated breeding costs. The only way to make back your money is to retire and breed, and that's where it becomes a pyramid scheme.

--Dunbar