Why do they do this?
 

NYRA once again schedule last 3 races right on top of Del Mar. :mad:

If NYRA starts the card before Del Mar, how exactly are they starting the races on top of Del Mar, why isn't it the other way around?

Or did Del Mar schedule their 3 races on top of NYRA?

You realize that trying to hold off starting races around other racetracks is not as easy as you are implying it is, Hammerle has talked about this a number of times on Steve's show. Even if you try to do it unforseen delays can place races on top of one another.

This is another ludicrous complaint about nothing.

.....I know!!!!!! It was really interfering with my Hoosier Park action too. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. Alan, why dont you go do it. Now, I know we might not hear from you for several weeks. We will all be waiting for your return.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

I'm guessing neither coast really gives a $hit about what the other is doing.

Alan bombed on the logic part of the SAT.

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Saratoga takes way too long time between races. Why not just adopt the Belmont post times?

The 10th race tomorrow will go off at 5:45 pm. The 10th race during Belmont's fall meet on an average Sat. last year went off at 5:47pm.

Just look at Sunday - 6:04pm.

An extra minute per race... that's brutal. How we will ever deal?

No wonder why the featured race is often relegated to taped status on TVG.

I think they should move that last race to 6:03 pm and avoid the taped status? What do you think?

Move it to 5:50-5:52.

I think Alan should be appointed Horse Racing Post Time Czar where the tracks have no power to overrule his decisions as to what time any track can run a race.

What happened to your note about 10 race cards? I was writing a response?

Your incessant bitching is getting very, very old. Stay at Pace Advantage for a while.

These are the post time they should use. But I assume for greed, they won't.

http://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbH...-SAR-20110817D

I'm pretty close to making an "Alan's complaints" thread and consolidating everything into there. It will probably be 400 pages long.

Why is the Sword Dancer scheduled the same day as the Arlington Million? Is this also hard to avoid scheduling simmilar grade 1 races on the same day?

Everything came into question after NYRA created the AIDS....

good point about the sword dancer/arl million, only one of many times that similar races vie with each other for entrants and attention. it's too bad that racing still competes with itself, instead of working together to compete against other interests.

At the risk of being blasted (I'm bored, it is pouring...) Alan's laying the blame on NYRA kind of distracts from the issue of tracks running races at the same time which IMO something that is easily solved with a minimum of effort. Is it really hard for the simulcast coordinators at various tracks to communicate when posttimes are identical? While understanding that there are various factors that come into play, would it kill these people to ask to take a minute here and there to avoid two races at the premier tracks to go off at the same time?

Am sitting in the Jockey Club Round Table presentation -- it's intermission -- and earlier the technology department talked about the enhanced InCompass Post Time Coordinator system that apparently is well on its' way to being widely installed. Would like to have heard more about it, but it was dwarfed by the important phony posturing on anti-medication...

That sounds great because with the current system it is hard for anyone to argue that Tracks are not leaving money on the table by running simultaneously at the big tracks. Especially Stakes and Graded Stakes.

Not all tracks manage times. NYRA, for example, publishes their times and goes on with it unless there is some weather. With the premiere meet in the country, they can do as they see fit... their starting time is well known, their typical pattern is also well known and tracks should adjust accordingly.

When they released their times for this summer, there were at least 8 different sets to accomodate the big days, NBC/Versus, sunset, steeplechase etc. It took me forever, but I went day-by-day to move our races at LAD to avoid theirs as much as possible.

There are a series of tracks who pay absolutely no attention to them, or simply don't understand they make a difference, and many racetrack execs who refuse to believe they play a role. Joke's on them.

The times I put in our track program are nothing more than window dressing. Yesterday we ended 2 minutes beyond the published time... the day before we finished 11 minutes before. If we're 12 minutes behind Saratoga, and they have an inquiry (and it's not too hot), I'll ask the stewards to have the horses take a minute on the track.

It's a constantly evolving process. The "best" post time management by far comes from Tampa, who are okay with making drastic adjustments to find the optimal times. Their success is not a mistake.

Listening online. Did they intentionally try to find morons to interview?

Seems like it, yes. A lot of the McKinsey results so far are skewed and self-fulfilling. The TV info was the most relevant thing I've heard so far.

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They seem more dedicated to making the system work for that reason. Estimated revenue capture of 6% alleviating overlap.

Lasix prohibition! It should be illegal immediately and I have the faulty logic to prove it! All in favor say DERP!

Or maybe TVG should show that race live rather than some crappy claimer at Del Mar.