QTwithTQ
01-29-2015, 05:21 PM
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary recently posted a Q&A with trainer John Gosden. He talks international racing, compares America and Europe, racing surfaces, pedigrees, betting systems, race-day medication etc. Here's a snippet:
“I remember the era of the late 1970s, early 1980s, of the great American horses and their breeders. It was fantastic. There was a wonderful quality of horse and they were tough with it; the likes of Affirmed and Spectacular Bid, for example. But now, it is very tempting for North America to go slightly isolationist and say: “Well, we’re breeding for our domestic market, we race on dirt, and that’s the way it is.” That would render the great American Thoroughbred, for which I have a lot of respect, an increasingly irrelevant creature on the world stage. That really does concern me.
You can read the entire article on ThoroughbredRacing.com (https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/gosden-how-great-american-thoroughbred-could-become-increasingly-irrelevant)
“I remember the era of the late 1970s, early 1980s, of the great American horses and their breeders. It was fantastic. There was a wonderful quality of horse and they were tough with it; the likes of Affirmed and Spectacular Bid, for example. But now, it is very tempting for North America to go slightly isolationist and say: “Well, we’re breeding for our domestic market, we race on dirt, and that’s the way it is.” That would render the great American Thoroughbred, for which I have a lot of respect, an increasingly irrelevant creature on the world stage. That really does concern me.
You can read the entire article on ThoroughbredRacing.com (https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/gosden-how-great-american-thoroughbred-could-become-increasingly-irrelevant)