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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
All of you said is probably true but the thread was supposedly about how turf races were suffering because of synthetic tracks and that is hardly the case. The race that Frankels horse is skipping Sat is a 10 horse field where Frankel already has 2 other races not to mention it is far from an important race. Perhaps Frankel would have not pointed his horse to the Big Cap on Dirt but he sure may have. I guess i am getting old but I remember lots of "turf" horses trying the big Cap. Of course they would have used this as a prep too. California is far different than everywhere else in regards to scheduling of races due to the distance from the other major races. But I would maintain that the schedule in the summer and fall in the east and midwest where races of all sorts overlap is a bigger detriment to thin stakes races than synthetic surfaces.
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You're right about that. No turf races are really suffering.....unless of course someone is upset that Mott's horse won't be making any overnight races go at Churchill this summer because he's at Arlington. And, as far as Del Mar, their turf stakes are always five or six horse fields anyway.
Plenty of turf horses have tried the SA Handicap. I think Shug said some think that dirt track is kind to turf horses.....though perhaps that was his justification for running Good Reward.