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Originally Posted by King Glorious
The BC hasn't done anything to the racing calender.
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This is way off. The Breeders' Cup has essentially forced the hand of racetracks to schedule their big races in three or four week span to allow for (at least) three or four weeks to the Breeders' Cup. The result is a clustered racing calendar and lost-in-the-shuffle stakes. Once prominent races have been pinched and torn and pulled as a result. Furthermore, racing ends after the first week of November. What would be so wrong with pushing back the BC to say, Thanksgiving weekend, and giving racetracks another three weeks to work out a coherent schedule of preps and promotion?