Del Mar
 

Extremely disappointed, 3 days 24 races and not one 2yr old Maiden Special Weight race. Where are the baby races?

Maybe they're finally wising up and doing the right thing … BANNING "BABY RACES".



Horses must be at least three-years-old before they can race

The Triple Crown races are for four-year-olds

No horse can become a stallion till at least age six




Ah … wouldn't it be nice.....................

Guess you didn't read the report that two year olds were less likely to break down then 3+ horses...

No it would be pointless, chase more owners out of the game and be detrimental to the horses themselves.

Other than that it's a fine idea.

Let's temper it a bit then. How about we card only 5F or greater races for 2 year olds. I don't have a problem with 2 year olds running in general. I do have a problem when they run 2F, 4F and 4.5F. These races are a ****in' joke. You have racing secretaries that never bother to mix their distances (5f, 5.5f. 6f, 6.5f, 7f, in the sprints, for example) yet they card these sham races.

If they can't get 5F, they should be racing against poodles.

NYRA, at least, to their credit, get this part right.

They usually have the MSW 2 year old races on the weekend. Del Mar is not like Saratoga. They don't have MSW races every day. They just have a couple every weekend.

Ok then.
I was excited looking for the next big Baffert.

You mean the 15 races a year run nationwide at these distances are just too much to handle?

I'm sure he'll have at least one in each of the MSW races on opening weekend.

Nationwide? You have any idea how many of these there are between HOL, GG, CD, AP, CRC, WO, etc.?

A lot more than 15. But your point is well taken: run them when they can't get a reasonable distance so that the owners get hooked even more. Why keep them in the barn or on the farm and let them develop to the point when they can actually compete as horses?:rolleyes:

Too bad Z didn't start as a baby...................

Hell I'd take January, February, May, or July of this year.

Cigar too

Yeah there might be 20 or 25 out of how many races run this year? 40000 or 50000?

And yes owners get "hooked" on running horses 4 1/2 furlongs. Turns them into zombies that just start spending more and more.

There are few things in this sport, which is full of bad ideas, that is more idiotic or disproven than the idea that horses shouldnt compete as 2 year olds.

Guys, Charlestown runs 15 4.5f races every week.

Cakes,

It won't get much pub, but that was very clever.

Cheers!:)

I think his point is based just on 2yr olds.

Okay, charlestown runs 15-20 4.5 furlong races for two year olds every month.

How the hell did Forego make it to the gate nearly sixty times??????????????

I just hope QR doesn't collapse from exhaustion at the sixteenth pole in the Whitney, cakes.

Seems like forever since we've seen him on the track...

I don't have a problem with them competing as 2 year olds. I just want them to run tbred distances.

Doubtful anyone other than the Sartinistas is playing this track.

Is this a 2 turn race at CT?

BUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHH

Almost. They start them from the chute. Its an interesting niche though.

They have some nice purses and they are just going to get bigger now that table games have arrived.

Why run them longer than they are ready to go? In april they are ready to go 4 1/2. I have no defense of the 2 furlong races.

How would you card mdn special races when there are only a handful, and thats not really an exaggeration, of owners buying reasonable priced horses and sending them to socal?

They would ALWAYS run a straight mdn three year old race the first day, then a filly race thurs-fri, and then one each over the weekend. These races would raw well the first week.

You would have your top flight owners, Paulson, Lewis, Harbor View, Moss, etc etc, then the rest would be made up of smaller barn owners who had maybe 5-10 horses but a few decent bred.

Now the big owners are all dead, money dont go to socal anymore. The middle guy is extinct out there.

Who doesn't go to Charles Town? I've never been in a Vegas or Atlantic City casino as crowded as that place was last weekend.

Rock So Hard, a Rock Hard Ten colt who has worked with Smash, is expected to debut for Baffert and the Summit Racing syndicate on Saturday in the first scheduled straight maiden race of the meet.

Yeah I think Zenyatta has raced like twice or three times as much as QR this year. QR is is like Dominique Wilkins and Zenyatta is like...umm...some other athlete that never competed or faced anyone worth a darn.

Delmar 2yo MSW
 

The first Condition Book is without a 2yo MSW. They are saving them for the second half of the meet Book 2

Musket Man / Tizway

Dry Martini / Delightful Kiss

You and I Forever / Congressional Page

Yeah

Beating the likes of these is a CAREER for most horses. QR has done it in a matter of 3 races. Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww :rolleyes:

And he's working up a storm too, from what I read.

ELIXIR is Flowingggggggggggggggggggggggggg

Expect big things at the Spahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Trust me, I'm not calling QR any kind of monster by comparing him to Z. They both exemplify MANY things that are wrong with horse racing today IMO.