Watered down Graded Stakes

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

You would have a lot of breeders in uproar.

For sure... but the truth hurts.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

For sure... but the truth hurts.

It's such a crazy system. You have breeders saying the purses are not big enough to keep a horse in training, yet stakes with big purses don't fill.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

The Breeders would riot if they put me in charge of Grading the stakes races right now. I would be slashing races of status left and right. Some Gr 1's would become Gr 3's. Some Gr 2's would become ungraded. Basically eliminating options for good horses in each division and almost forcing their hand into the same one or two likely spots for each start.

[tiggerv]

It's long past time to dump the Breeders Cup and take away some of the incentive to avoid tough races all year in order to prep for 1 racing day.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by tiggerv

It's long past time to dump the Breeders Cup and take away some of the incentive to avoid tough races all year in order to prep for 1 racing day.

No, you don't understand, it's the Super Bowl of racing, it's the biggest day, it's the biggest races, it's the most important, it's the 1 race that makes a campaign, it's the 1 set of races that if you win you're a champion.

Love,

Zenyattafan

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

No, you don't understand, it's the Super Bowl of racing, it's the biggest day, it's the biggest races, it's the most important, it's the 1 race that makes a campaign, it's the 1 set of races that if you win you're a champion.

Love,

Zenyattafan

This is so wrong and gay its really not even funny. How many G 1 and G 2 races has Z won the last 3 years, besides the 2 BC wins?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

This is so wrong and gay its really not even funny. How many G 1 and G 2 races has Z won the last 3 years, besides the 2 BC wins?

You're right, it was so much more interesting for her 2009 campaign to go Milady-Vanity-Hirsch-Lady's Secret-BCC than something like Louisville-Hollywood Gold Cup-Hirsch-Pacific Classic-Goodwood-BCC.

In fact, this year it has been way more interesting to see her in the Santa Margarita-Apple Blossom-Vanity than the Big Cap-Apple Blossom-Louisville-Hollywood Gold Cup.

I forgot how important the little numbers are next to those races. If you are a fan of thoroughbred racing then the mind-numbingly boring campaign of the "stars" this year (Zenyatta, Rachel, QR) is something you have to be very disgusted about.

NT

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

You're right, it was so much more interesting for her 2009 campaign to go Milady-Vanity-Hirsch-Lady's Secret-BCC than something like Louisville-Hollywood Gold Cup-Hirsch-Pacific Classic-Goodwood-BCC.

In fact, this year it has been way more interesting to see her in the Santa Margarita-Apple Blossom-Vanity than the Big Cap-Apple Blossom-Louisville-Hollywood Gold Cup.

I forgot how important the little numbers are next to those races. If you are a fan of thoroughbred racing then the mind-numbingly boring campaign of the "stars" this year (Zenyatta, Rachel, QR) is something you have to be very disgusted about.

NT

Im sorry for calling something you said gay, I got a little carried away.

[Gate Dancer]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The Breeders would riot if they put me in charge of Grading the stakes races right now. I would be slashing races of status left and right. Some Gr 1's would become Gr 3's. Some Gr 2's would become ungraded. Basically eliminating options for good horses in each division and almost forcing their hand into the same one or two likely spots for each start.

While I basically agree with this...............actually given the 'state of the state' of racing, some of this may happen naturally due to economic conditions and/or some track closures.