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Originally Posted by the_fat_man
But these tracks (AP and CRC, certainly) still offer more in terms of variety than NYRA. My intent was not to focus solely on longer races but to also highlight the lack of variety.
AP regularly offers 5.5F, 6.5F and 7F sprints for older horses, for example. This makes the sprints interesting, as there are horses that just can't handle even a .5F difference. This not only works well for the astute handicapper, who notes these preferences/limitations but also for the connections, who can cash a check every so often by running their horse at its preferred distance. Why not reward these people for all the times they're running their horses in what are not optimal distances for them? In other words, filling tracks' cards.
At NYRA tracks, if your horse can't make it to 6F or can't quite get up going 6F, you're basically ****ed. Why is that?
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I never understood why tracks didnt write more 6 1/2 furlong races?
Or why as soon as July ends so many tracks refuse to write any short races for 2 year olds? The later developing ones would benefit from a start at a short distance like 5f but they stop writing them.