Consider the racing type over the course of time. Haynie’s Maria (1808) raced 13 times covering more than 40 miles. Man O’War (1917) ran 21 times covering twenty and five-eighths miles. Justify (2017) has raced four times covering four and one quarter miles.
It is kinda hard to see the forest through the trees, but take a look at the data at following links.
http://www.jockeyclub.com/default.asp?section=FB&area=10
http://www.jockeyclub.com/factbook/r...sp?whatyr=2017
Check the number of starts for Kentucky. If you think it through . . . there will be a time not too far from now that horseracing as we know it will die out. Horseracing is dying because the racehorse is becoming extinct. Speed kills, always has always will.
For now, here is an interesting thought. As the horses race few and fewer times as two-year-olds what will become of the historical two-year-old stakes races?
