Its a race often viewed as the premiere middle distance championship of Europe and yet it isn’t open to all – utter nonsense to defend excluding geldings because its a stallion making race.
If you want to find out who really is the best of the generations/sexes, then at least everyone has to be eligible to enter the race. More often than not there won’t be a gelding good enough but when the do pop up they will make the race better for being in it.
How stupid was it that last year the world best racehorse couldn’t actually run in his own country’s biggest race simply because he had his family jewels removed.