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Originally Posted by johnny pinwheel
i think you are kind of missing the point....gulfstream is partly responsible. that meet keeps expanding and it causes friction with other tracks. i mean if you like 5k claimers 4, 5 months a year at the place, fine. that track used to be a WINTER ELITE meet. by now they would be getting near the end of the meet, for crying out loud.....now the FLA derby is in april(are you kidding me!) when they run all the other preps....its a joke. they water down every card with races i would not even bet on that lower tracks could be running(calder, notice they kind of leave stakes horses out of it).....then they sit there wondering why others get pissed off. i usually don't even look at the PP's until after the 5th race at GP and once late march hits it really sucks......all day...so what are they trying to accomplish......more dates??....more racing???...even if its cheap claimers???...at the expense of everyone else....of course none of this is OK but threatened tracks will fight before they go down. when it becomes cut throat these are the issues that come with it. its rarely one sided folks........the parties hurt are just casualties.....if calder gets hurt enough and shuts down.........ALL the REVENUE, FOR EVERYONE, from that track will be gone....then they can rent stall space before its townhouses or something.....lol
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Stop trying to make this into something it isn't. The thread is about the outrageous use of horseman as a bargaining chip against their will, TO THEIR DETRIMENT!!! Why is this so hard for anyone to understand. Who runs when or what kind of horses are running or what stakes they have is not the topic of the thread. It is the actions of CDI against their own horseman. There is no justification for this and the words of Marshall make it even worse. His saying that it will be better for Calder because the horses will be rested is a disgrace.
What the horseman should do is get Brunetti to come to his senses, make a deal with GP to run year round except with 2 Keeneland style meets at Hialeah. Refuse to run a single horse at Calder so they get their casino license suspended and get rid of Calder. GP has a training center that sits unused 6 months year and you know Stronach wants year round racing.