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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
Last Saturday, Mountaineer carded NINE different OPEN stakes races, all worth at least 100K a piece. They handled just over $2.7 million.
By comparison, Monmouth Park did over $4.9 million and Del Mar did over $7.9 million on the same day -- and both of them put on wildly inferior cards to the one at Mountaineer.
The quality of racing on the card doesn't make as big a deal as the prestige of the racetrack said card is held on.
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maybe they should run the card at night and out of the tradition summer showcase meets then?