Randy Moss: Don't Let Em Go To Stud Until 5

[Imriledup]

Originally Posted by Horseplayersbet.com

If it was agreed upon that horses couldn't enter stud until 5 in order to have a legal foal that is eligible to race, a law could easily be passed.

Try running a horse that doesn't have foal papers. If jurisdictions stated they are barring horses from running who were sired by a horse 4 years or younger, that would be the rule. It can also be put into every races conditions if anyone worries about lawsuits.

You can have state bred races, you can also have races where it stipulates all horses must be by horses aged 5 or great at the time of conception.

If race sec's would start writing that into the conditions, people would be less apt to breed to a stallion under 5.

Good points.

[Show Me the Wire]

I really do not see any economical benefit or horse soundness benefit to racing by prohibiting breeding before a certain age. Is there any empirical proof that sires who race longer produce sounder foals?

It is a closed bloodline what is in is in it.

[WinterTriangle]

I think it's a great idea not to go to stud til 5 or 6.............IF, and only IF, we stop racing 2 year olds.

[Show Me the Wire]

I really don't see the validity of the point. How is it going to economically benefit racing on the whole? Also, is there any emperical evidence that a sire that competes longer throws off sounder horses?

[Robert Goren]

Originally Posted by bisket

prior to the 1980's the handicap races were just as important as the triple crown races. the breeders cup changed that.

Handicap races stop being important long before the Breeders Cup started. It stopped when a horse could make more as an unproven stud than he could racing. Stakes racing is today (and has been since the 1970s) about making a name which can fetch a high stud fee. On a side note, when was last time a horse carried a 130 lbs in a major handicap? My guess is that it has been decades.