Ideas to shoot down

Why not say all stud fees above a baseline amount-say, $30,000-have to be transacted on, based on a coefficient index of all earnings from all runners in a given year?

So, if the baseline is $30,000, and all horses standing for less than that have average earnings of $25k while all horses standing for more than $30k have average earnings of $37k, everyone who bred to stallions standing for more than $30k would owe the stud $12k on top of the posted stud fee.

If the under beats the over, all studs would owe their breeders the difference. Or use your own metrics, I am sure there are better ones to be found.

What if all graded stakes were charged with fielding a baseline number-say, seven? If the race fails to meet that bar(vet scratches would preclude the penalty from being enforced), the AGSC has to supplement the purse by a progressive scale based on actual grade of race and the race loses graded status for that year.

To wit, a GIII race would force the AGSC to supplement the minimum required purse for a GIII ($100,000), $150,000 for a GII and $300,000 for a GI.

Maybe the ridiculous number of graded races might drop off and winning one might actually mean something for the breed.

Hat tip to The Baseline Scenario