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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Dude We cant compete pursewise with Dubai (for obvious reasons) and Japan (because of the huge handle). We have the same # of races on the list as Aust and more than Eng or FR. I agree the graded stakes committee isn't really helping but they dont make purses, handle does.
I never understood the argument about "bad" grade 1 winners hurting the breed. If they are bad sires the market will eliminate them. The few hundred horses they sire wont affect the breed. I mean if you threw a few mediocre allowance horses in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and made it a 7 horse field, Berny still would have had a walk in the park. A horses racing career has very little impact once they have produced a few crops.
Look at a horse like Coranados Quest or Dayjur. Both well bred, accomplished horses that got great books of mares but were not sucessful as stallions. Have they polluted the breed? No, people just stopped breeding good mares to them and they were marginalized. Easy Goer did not have much chance before he died but the ones he sired were mostly bums, he was headed in the wrng direction with a great group of mares.
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We send some of the best mares each year to unproven stallions -- Black Type types who earned it on a shill. It hurts the breed. Do you think Bernardini's book will be filled by substandard mares? Hardly.
What you say is true -- if he does't prove it then the fee and book will drop. But by then the next hype story will take his place. And the wheel turns round again.