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Originally Posted by NTamm1215
The thing though is that Woodbine subsidizes all travel expenses for horses shipping in and that's part of the reason why the Canadian International is usually very strong. Now, even with it three weeks ahead of the BC, you have to convince those European horsemen to take their charges another 2,000 miles to turf courses they generally do not favor (I know there have been exceptions) in much warmer temperatures on their own dime.
I don't know about all of you but two years of 8 horse fields in the BC Turf along with watered down Classics, Sprints, and Juvenile races does not have me excited.
NT
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This is just an observation, but does anyone still care about the BC races other than US based or owned horses. I'm not sure anyone in Europe, Dubai, Japan and even Canada for that matter are scratching out dates in their blackberry calendars pointing for the BC.