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Sports fans form relationships with teams and players. It's hard for people to think of horse racing as a sport when they can't form any kind of relationship with the horses given they run so infrequently and retire so soon. Racing will never be like football, baseball etc.. but if horses ran until they were 5-6 and we had more multi generational matchups between champions, I think we could move the needle in a positive direction.
The economics of breeding/buying yearlings vs. racing for purses is what it is, but we can see by looking at mares that if those economics were different, horses would race longer for purses. I don't understand the economics of yearling prices at all. Almost all the buyers are getting buried financially, but they keep on buying, which in turn encourages retirement. That's "one" thing that has to change to at least start moving in a positive direction.
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Last edited by classhandicapper; 08-14-2021 at 07:39 PM.
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