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Actually, that is no longer the minimum requirement. A prominent NY Breeder has
a stallion so "valuable" he will pay owners of mares to breed to said stallion.

But I see your point about the free market. Hell, if a stallion can make wood,
breed him until he is exhausted. That will assure us that we can have horses
running 15 hours a day 7 days a week at the Racinos; eventually the breed will
become so unsound that Polytrack will be too unforgiving and they will be
bouncing along on a surface manufactured by Sealy Posturepedic.

This thread was about great horses, and why there seems to be less of them and
why their careers tend to be so short; the type of breeding regimen you seem to
advocate assures that we will have huge fields of nondescript runners so that we
might all bet those nickel superfectas which are sure to save racing.