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Originally Posted by parsixfarms

There are plenty of things to question about the manner in which the NYRA racing office does things, but I think it's hard to blame them for the annual pre-Saratoga lull. It's compounded when there has essentially been no 2YO racing to bolster the program, and there are several barns with dozens of horses at the Oklahoma hardly running (same for a California transplant granted thirty stalls at Belmont).

Against this backdrop, carding an extra race a day (and this continued on Wednesday) makes little sense.

Shirreffs rarely runs his horses, everyone knew that going in.