If the big farm want to have their names on stakes and spend money advertising their horses that won big stakes, let them ante up more for the stakes purses.
If you wonder where the money is start by comparing pictures (or visiting) of the many breeding operations and compare their condition with a stop at a race track.
Every year new records are set at the yearling sales yet we never hear how much more the commercial breeders put back into stake races.
PARKED, you absolutely correct. For a while Crawford Farms made a big splash at the Meadowlands. Not sure if thats the case any longer. But dollar for dollar as a smaller breeder than spent more on advertising than many of the larger commercial operations did annually combined. Unfortunately the overall mind set of the harness racing business model is take whatever you can, and don't put anything back.
