Win and You're In

Thanks for the link Mr Paulick, the TBA follows you and another 140 blogs. Did you know I'm no fan of W&YI? Ok, so you knew that, but what I really hate is this whining about how it's not REALLY W&YI (for those that don't pay the original fee or for those that don't supplement.) What those that are whining are suggesting is that no one should really pay into the BC, just go out an win one W&YI race (which are expanding every year) and compete to win a purse that is no longer funded by what they need to be funded by. The chances of a foal ending up in the BC are miniscule, that's why the fee is nominal at birth. A person is already spending 10s of thousands, what's another couple of hundred for a dream? This is where the BC gets most of its funding. Supplements are so high after the fact because people would stop nominating at birth all together if a person be allowed to wait to see if the horse is a "BC" type horse and then nominating for a couple hundred. Everyone would wait, so it makes sense that the supplement fees are as large as they are. For those whiners please suggest how the BC should make money if/when people stop nominating their horses at birth and wait to win a W&YI race (which should prove you have a BC horse).