If I were a Horse Breeder

[Silver Charm]

If I had a large Plantation Stud Farm, I swear I would go back to breeding stamina mares to stamina sires and would win maybe the next 10 consecutive Derby\'s.

All of this speed Breeding came home to roost this year, Finally.

Smarty was the rare exception to the rule last year and while Funny Cide is game and fun to root for, he developed early and has not much since his Derby win. It is beginning to take effect.

The short sighted mentallity of Breeding speed to speed so the horse comes out running in April of his two year old training sale breeze is ruining the bred.

 That is back-to-back Triple Crown Races where the winner received a 100 Beyer. Crawling come home fractions are more common. Look at all the preps. The time has come to move the Derby distance to 1 mile and 1/8 and the Belmont to 1 mile and 1/4.

[albany]

Silver Charm:

I agree with your assessment that the proliferation of speed on speed breeding is not desirable. However, I do not understand how a reduction in the distances of the Derby and Belmont would encourage the industry to breed for more stamina.

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

Silver Charm wrote:

> If I had a large Plantation Stud Farm, I swear I would go back
> to breeding stamina mares to stamina sires and would win maybe
> the next 10 consecutive Derby\'s.

If the implication is that drugs are out of the picture I would agree. However, it might be hasty yet to conclude they were absent from this years race.

>
> All of this speed Breeding came home to roost this year,
> Finally.
>
> Smarty was the rare exception to the rule last year and while
> Funny Cide is game and fun to root for, he developed early and
> has not much since his Derby win. It is beginning to take
> effect.

Funny is bred very well on his female side and he might have been the only member of that crop not running on medications.

> The short sighted mentallity of Breeding speed to speed so the
> horse comes out running in April of his two year old training
> sale breeze is ruining the bred.

 
>  That is back-to-back Triple Crown Races where the winner
> received a 100 Beyer. Crawling come home fractions are more
> common.

If Beyer said the Belmont was a 100 he\'s full of it.

Look at all the preps. The time has come to move the
> Derby distance to 1 mile and 1/8 and the Belmont to 1 mile and
> 1/4.

Thats was once the geriatric argument of Lukas before he figured out how to train for a Belmont Stakes.  The day they shorten the TC races or change their spacing is the day I concentrate on MLB.

[Silver Charm]

The breeders will not change, they are too greedy and probably for good reason, its how they make a living.

Watch the replay of the Derby stretch run again.

It resembled a mustang herd in Kansas.

The Best Plodder Won.

[Blind Switch]

Sires represented in this year\'s Derby:

Clever Trick
Phone Trick
Mr Greeley
Holy Bull
Slewpy
Afleet
No Sale George
Deputy Minister
Dixieland Band
Seneca Jones
Valid Appeal


They better split the BC Sprint into 2 divisions this year. What a joke!

[Fatso]

Too Much speed up front you go with the Closer, did i do it, Hell No! my view if DGM did not run at the trials he should have been in the Picture too