The NTRA hosted a big "Marketing Summit" this past weekend while what they should have been doing was actually MARKETING the d@mn sport!
There will be more G1's this coming weekend than on BC weekend and not a single national broadcast will attend. In addition to NY and Cali, Turfway and even Hawthorne have significant racing and unless one uses one of the satellite TV services you are SOL on racing on TV this weekend.
Capital OTB will show every one of those stakes. The Belmont races will be live and those that are run during the Belmont card will be aired as soon as possible after their completion. Once the Belmont card is over, it will be all live as much a s possible.
As for the quality of what Capital OTB does, when you consider what we do and under what circumstances and with how few people you would be amazed. (When ESPN arrived for the Travers, they brought about 70 people, 5or 6 production trucks, and mountains of equipment. We did over 100 shows from Saratoga with one engineer, two cameras and one small trailer.)
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RIP Monroe.
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