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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
This is also why there are so few legitimate Grade 1 races for older males now, why it's more worth taking a shot with a top mare against males now, why we often see lower speed figures for older male stakes horses etc.. The best ones are more lightly raced and retired long before they are fully seasoned and at at their physical peak. Then we are left with the also rans and pretenders to take over the division the following year.
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Even Baffert himself showed you how it is done with this. When he got an excellent gelding, Game on Dude, no choice but to keep him in training, and he won all sorts of races and money with him, much of it beating up on those decimated California handicap division fields (although to be fair, the field he beat in his final Santa Anita Handicap win was top notch).
