Team tactics are not allowed in Australian racing but they sure would make weight-for-age racing - the sport's showpiece events - in this country a helluva lot more interesting.
Team riding is forbidden in this country for the fear that it could attack the integrity of the sport.
It would also give the bigger stables an even larger hand in the major races as they have the means to sacrifice a horse for pacemaking purposes.
That's why Aidan O'Brien was given such an intense grilling by stewards after last year's Melbourne Cup.
It's hard to imagine former taxi driver Joe Janiak having as much success with Takeover Target - an on-pacer - had he been subjected to bolters from larger stables entered solely to pressure his horse.
The argument for, however, is worth a look at, particularly after Saturday's St George Stakes showed yet again how predictable WFA events in Victoria and New South Wales have become.
Such races are commonly described as a battle of tactics. Recently, it's become a case of find the lead, run like a tortoise then finish like a hare.
If pacemakers were allowed, WFA races would be run at a genuine tempo; there'd be less interference because the field would be more strung out, and the best horse - rather than the one given the best ride - would win more often.
So slowly was Theseo travelling, it was always going to be impossible for any of the backmarkers to run him down.
Sure he was the best horse in the race but it helps to have the race run to suit as well.
The final 600m in the St George - an 1800m event - was 0.14 second faster than the 1100m scamper that is the Oakleigh Plate.
"You're just always at the mercy of the pace in these WFA races," said trainer Danny O'Brien, whose stayer Master O'Reilly did not relish the lack of speed.
"Only one in five they run them at a genuine clip."
Other big-race snooze-and-sprints this season have been the Yalumba Stakes, the Mackinnon Stakes and a whole host of diabolical weight-for-age events in Sydney that rarely attract double-digit fields.
Last year's Cox Plate was another slowly run race and autumn's equivalent in Melbourne - the Australian Cup on March 7 - will be again if the St George is any guide.
It's a far cry from the days of the late 1980s when Vo Rogue would be a dozen lengths clear in the run.
Even the 2005 Cox Plate, famous not only for Makybe Diva's win but the photo of eight horses lined across the track turning for home, seems from another era.
Of course, the trainer of any frontrunner in a race void of natural speed would be derelict in their duty if they told their jockey to pour the pace on.
But what's stopping jockeys from showing some initiative and making a mid-race move in a bid to win rather than following someone else's script and plodding into fifth or sixth?
That's what Shane Dye did in 1997 to pinch a Group One race aboard Octagonal, a natural swooper.
Perhaps the fear of a trainer's wrath - and the axe - has stopped such daring rides.
But unless trainers, jockeys or the authorities show more courage, WFA racing will continue to be won by tactics rather than horsepower.