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Originally Posted by oracle80
Misinformation?
You say its headed in the right direction?
I have a few questions for you then.
1) Are the purses there not embarassingly small given the type of horses who winter there(like the ones YOU cited) and the fact that there is a huge horse population to draw from?
2) Are the weekday cards not an absolute disgrace containing nothing but cheap claimers and maiden claimers(as cited by trainers last year including Frankel when they went to management to complain about it)?
3) Was the refurbishment of Gulfstream Park not incredibly stupid and undertaken with no foresight as the mile and an eigth dirt races give an unfair advantage to the inside pp's causing trainers to scratch horses out of these races when drawing the outside?
Was it not also incredibly stupid to refurbish the oval leaving horseman without the possibility of running mile and a sixteenth two turn dirt races, something that Zito, Pletcher, etc complained about citing how vital they are for three year olds starting their tri crown campaigns who are not ready to go a mile and an eighth of the layoff yet need two turn seasoning?
Now geniuses, if one of you wants to debate me and tell me which one of these FACTS, not opinions, that you disagree with please feel free.
Otherwise stick to what it is that you know(perhaps needlepoint?), because you sure don't know much about how many people feel about the "new Gulfstream Park".
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Agree, except #3.
What's so precious about being able to run 1 1/16 2-turn races at Gulfstream? There are several 9F dirt tracks as you know. They cant run 8.5F there either. It's obviously a negative for the 3 yo's but how can they really build a rack for, what, 5-10 races? People (me, at least) like 1-turn mile races and they must think they can card far more of those than they can at 1 1/16. And of course turf racing on a 1 mile track is far superior to that on a 7/8 course.
As an aside, I'd bet dollars to dimes there will not be slots at the '07 GP meet. Jeb Bush will continue his legal challenges as long as he is in office.
I agree wholeheartedly on your #1 and #2. What they put up last year (and will again this year) is a joke.