According to the song from the musical Cabaret “money makes the world go around”.
The autumn yearling sales season in full swing and so is the sales-race season. This breed of contest, with their bumper prize cheques, has multiplied at some speed over the last 15 years but the purists have often questioned their place. The argument is that the sales races are a potential detriment to Pattern races, which are designed to attract the best horses in an attempt to arrive at a pecking order from which breeders can decide on the best bloodstock for the future prosperity of the breed.
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