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Just look at things differently Judge.  It's not impossible to see a field of imports racing here at the moment with one Aussie in the mix.  Sometimes that one wins against the odds so I'm just saying don't give up on them.  The blood is still there.  If we don't believe in them who will.

OK they are winning these races yet our mares and stallion overseas have had winners in the Epsom Derby, Dubai World Cup, Epsom Oaks.  Same stallions and bloodlines found here.  Could be nothing developed while Winx was so supreme.  Or as I said we are been to kind to our horses.  What does a baby do.  It struggles all the way to get better and better.  Same with young horses or any young animal.  They struggle to learn what they must to survive in the world they are in.  They get Exceed and Excels to run over a distance!  We can hardly get them to run 1600m.

furious, the three big races at a mile and beyond today were won by imports. This is not an isolated occurrence. It's almost inevitable. O/s horses or imports won 20 odd G1 races last calendar year. And that was with Winx, and without them  contesting 2 and 3yo events.

Just a thought.  One four year old in the silver eagle was breed overseas.  It was older than the entire field but it finished last.  This is a four year old race Judge not money for the babies.  It was like David and Goliath with the Inevitable and Fasika.

Expect to see more of this:

Racing 2yos isn’t the problem furious. It’s how much money’s available to them that’s the problem.

We all admire Hartnell - he ran seven times as a two year old.

I write this as P.D.L. just has his third winner for the week

IMO you can't blame buyers and breeders if the powers that be are going to put these huge carrots under their noses. You get to race for squillions in the shallowest of talent pools. Madness.

It's not just the Slipper though. There are now 2 restricted sales races for 2yos in this country worth 2 million apiece! How much of this is too much? On Plate day at the Valley, there's an early season 2yo restricted sales race worth two and a half times as much as the WFA mile on the same day.

IMO the Golden Slipper itself is not what changed our racing . What has changed from the good old days is the breeding industry and the technology that enables stallions these days to serve 150+ mares a year . Good stallions at stud are walking money making machines. Champion 2 year olds in past like Todman Vain and Luskin Star would be serving a full book of around 50 mares. Good return on investment for the stud but nothing like the money they’d make now. I guarantee all three would have been retired after their 2 year old year if they were around now because they can make more money in the breeding barn than they could ever hope to on the racetrack. Yearling buyers at the sales want the next Sebring or Pierro not a derby winner so the merry go round goes on. Maybe a huge prize money race like the Golden Eagle just might mean owners will race their colts on till they’re 4 . If in 10 years time the winning colt from the Golden Eagle is worth more at stud than the Slipper winner this would be a good thing IMO.

djebel wrote: EVERY thoroughbred is bred to run 4000m whether you like it or not.

You seriously have no idea.