There are a lot of whacked out ideas being presented to save the sport of horse racing in the United States, but this one being floated in BloodHorse.com is a real dilly.
It calls for a World Series of Horse Racing, apparently to be held during half time of a nationally televised football game in the Fall.
My take?
With all those defective horses in there like I Want Revenge and Quality Road, this idea has a very real potential to be a PR disaster for horse racing.
Many of those horses mentioned simply aren't durable enough to be championship material.
They've proven during the run up to the 09 Triple Crown series that they just can't cut it, and most likely, if they continue to race, will not leave the track alive.
And then there's the question of a level playing field. Jess Jackson has already made it clear he'll only run Rachel Alexandra on dirt. What if a top horse runs best on grass? How about synthetics? Can a race that in effect excludes the best horses from around the world truly be called a World Series?
In short, this is just another one of those half baked ideas coming down the pike these days and is something that cannot be sustained given the present status of the horse racing industry and the animals themselves in the United States today.
Not related but an interesting article in something called the The Villages Daily Sun. I'm saving this because it sets the record straight on the question of Rachel Alexandra and plastics.
TvNB
Tuesday, June 30
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1 comments:
I was impressed by the quality of the writing in what is essentially the newsletter of a retirement community.
Here's a novel idea, instead of hare-brained quick-fix snake-oil plans to "SAVE" the sport, let's instead have a sensible LONG-TERM strategy to gradually build interest and appreciation.
NASCAR might provide some ideas.
I've never watched them, but just 6 years ago those "Mixed-Martial-Arts" things were a tiny niche-sport scorned by the mainstream sporting press.
They must have done SOMETHING right so perhaps we could get ideas from them too.
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