Down under (both Australia and New Zealand) do you race eliminations for lucrative races? Personally I hate them. In North America I see too many horses racing to qualify instead of trying to win an elimination. Quite honestly, how do you blame them when they race for $50,000 in an elimination and then race for $1 million in the final. Are you going to push your horse that hard to win an elimination to pull down $25,000 or are you going to save something for a potential $500,000 pay off the following week?