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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
When you watch the races from Churchill today, in order to actually catch a glimpse of your horse on the backstretch, your eye will have to deal with, satellite dishes, towers, trees, bushes, and tents, all of which obscure the viewing of the race at some point. In fact on the turn the whole field is obscured for several seconds by the mammoth box structure that they have erected on the infield. This is a critical part of the race and you won't be able to follow you horse making a move in the derby so that so drunken people in boxes can have a blast.
I find this terribly irritating but not surprising as this industry seems to never think about the customers experience.
They should rename it the most exciting 1 minute, 55 seconds in sports to allow for these obstructions.
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Yeah i caught that during the Oaks day coverage. I went 'oh hell no'...Kinda like how I was after I saw the hockey set up before the Derby on NBC. It's the battle of the willfully stupid.
It'll be better than the coverage of the Man O'War/Sir Barton match race. You see them go around the turn, the crowd go flying to the left, and then they appear around the far turn. I'm still trying to see how to blame Churchill Downs for that one. I'm sure it's their fault somehow.
My Favorite Quote of the Week: Quint Kessenich -- "I promised Kenny Mayne I wouldn't ask you about Vietnam."