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Originally Posted by MisterB
How do you figure that out? Most of the NY horses go south for the winter. I think spring through fall is a good meet, then ship to Kentucky, then to Florida. You have crap cards in NY most of the time, and AQU sucks all winter.
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The state breds own the AQ Inner meet. It's when the locals have the chance to make a living. Even at AQU in January, NYB maidens are running for around $40k. Race a Jersey bred and you have from May to November to make a living against NJ breds. The rest of the year you run at PHA or AQU or Penn but you wont get to run in statebred restricted races.
It's those "sucky" cards that allow some of the smaller operations to make it through Belmont, regroup during Saratoga and then gear up through the Belmont fall for another winter at AQU. The smaller barns wait until the big guns leave town that they plan to have horses eligible for conditions in Dec/Jan/Feb that they would have no hope in during June/July/Aug.