Deadly to Horses: The Baffert Effect

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10. Corporate breeding farms and unethical trainers have all but killed the sport.

Governing body's like CHRB are no more than "Sargent At Arms" for deep pocket owners and corporate entities like the
Stronich Group.
I was impressed w/ your correct observation about often drugged " champions" not being able to produce many winners.
there is a direct connection between the two, but it doesn't stop glory seeking people w/ some money to blow individually or in partnership groups from being steered to these mediocre animals by some trainer or flesh peddlers.

IMO, the urgency to get two year olds into training combined with the sophisticated performance enhancing drugs is the bane of the sport. 100 million dollar collective purses available to 3 year olds completely gives way to common sense and winds up breaking the spirit of the sport. We probably won't see another Cigar winning stakes at seven years old.

My late friend Bobby Frankel once said to me that " there was too much money on the table for the game too survive, because it left the 2 dollar bettor out of the fun."