Breeders Cup Headed Towards Folly?

[samyn on the green]

Breeders' Cup Headed Towards Folly?

The Breeders' Cup released a round of strategic planning initiatives that seem to be based in questionable logic. These guys are are promising more change than the laundromat where Obama used to wash his college duds. If not timely or based in reason change can be foolish. The Breeders' Cup has undergone massive changes over the last few years. Now it looks like a plan has been hatched that will foolishly squander the appeal the Breeders' Cup held over the public.

Parking the Breeders' Cup to one location is an idea that I have a problem with. They might have missed these problems due to the group think factor of the strategic planning board meeting. One of the broad appeals of the Breeders' Cup was that it was a world class event like the Olympics, The World Cup or the Super Bowl. These world class events travel round and the variety of locations provides these events a national or global home market. The Breeders' Cup benefited from a national home market. The memories of watching the Breeders' Cup at your home track resonated over the years and the Breeders' Cup built this relationship with fans from coast to coast. By parking the event at Santa Anita or Churchill they are going to lose the broad appeal factor. One of the charter goals -promoting that game to a broad audience-of the Breeders' Cup will be ignored. Churchill is a difficult/expensive place to fly to unless you are a box shipped on UPS. Santa Anita is a beautiful facility with consistently great weather but it has a surface that is foreign to most American dirt horses. From the fans perspective parking the Breeders' Cup at one location makes a world class event depreciate into a provincial event.

[plainolebill]

If they do move it permanently to CD I wouldn't be surprised to see Oak Tree and Belmont rearrange their schedules to suit themselves rather than the BC.

I wouldn't mind seeing Belmont's handicap triple crown come back to life.

[tzipi]

Whatever they want to do now. Whatever makes them feels better. It's all just reaching now because they lost their fans. It's all in the numbers. Not numbers from this year,numbers from the last 10 years. BC should switch aound.

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by plainolebill

If they do move it permanently to CD I wouldn't be surprised to see Oak Tree and Belmont rearrange their schedules to suit themselves rather than the BC.

I wouldn't mind seeing Belmont's handicap triple crown come back to life.

Yeah, like all those vampires that are so prominent these days. Unfortunately NYRA drove a stake through the heart of what some of us once knew as NY Racing. Even the oldest vampire can't survive the stake that is NYRA.

On a more positive note, however: the NYRA turf courses are so valuable there's no doubt they'll be around forever (wtf, they're hardly ever used).

Way to go

[tribecaagent]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

Yeah, like all those vampires that are so prominent these days. Unfortunately NYRA drove a stake through the heart of what some of us once knew as NY Racing. Even the oldest vampire can't survive the stake that is NYRA.

On a more positive note, however: the NYRA turf courses are so valuable there's no doubt they'll be around forever (wtf, they're hardly ever used).

Way to go

So, what are you saying?

[cj]

Originally Posted by tribecaagent

So, what are you saying?

The same thing he has said in his 736 posts.