very few people followed PG from Mth up to Sar because he only won by a small margin, i don't know where you get that crazy idea. if the horse won the haskel by 20 lengths in track record time, the sport would have had more of a superstar, and interest from the public would have increased....... and, why do you not want the travers to be a handicap race, while suggesting other gd 1 races should be handicaps? with the thousands of great betting races across the country each year, why not let the best horse, with the best connections take the top five or ten best races of the year? ........... the most legendary race in history was Secretariat winning the Belmont. i was in a crib at that time, so I really don't know what the conditions were, but I think he was on equal weights with the others, and that race is the most replayed in history because he won by so many length. does it really bother you that secretariat didn't pay $10.00 to win that day? huge crowds show up when the sport has superstars. let's show off racings superstars, not weigh them down.