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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
While people often complain about this, the tracks claim they cant fill them. But if they dont write them, why would they expect owners to buy or breed such horses? It is the chicken and the egg quandry. If they write enough of them and they are weak races, eventually the horseman will figure out that they are weak and look to acquire better horses to try to win the easier races.
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Agreed. Is it that the races don't fill, or that the racing office doesn't get as many starters as those in management obsessed about field size would like? I've often said that, if they start to let these races go with six instead of insisting upon eight, eventually horsemen will notice that may be easier checks out there in distance races and find horses for such races.