I have to disagree with the lack of continuity, I live in Cincinnati, I can be at Turfway in 15 minutes and Churchill or Keeneland in an hour and a half, that's not too bad. If a trainer wanted to do so, they could live in Williamstown on I-75, that way they would be a half hour from Turfway and an hour from Churchill or Keeneland, I'll give you the Pea Patch, that's pretty far away.
Racing in Kentucky is dead, no pulse, it's absolutely horrible. The purses and quality of horses are terrible, then with their premiere meet at Keeneland, they completely ruin the place with Poly Track, I can't wait to see the handle at Keeneland, it's going to be terrible, no one wants to bet that crap and the big players that target a meet like that, will avoid it like the plague. They will still have the Derby, but that's it, for the rest of the year they run cheap claimers, that I could care less about. They pile all of there big days into a couple of days and within six weeks during the Keeneland meets. There is no comparison to NY, where you get a nice card at Belmont even during the week. I can't blame a guy for locating up there and then being able to ship in to NY relatively easy, it makes sense...
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