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Originally Posted by Danzig
that's just it, i don't know that moving the preakness would mean one more horse would step into the gate that ran in the derby.
a lot of people run horses in the derby just as a 'throw it at the wall, see if it sticks' type move. many drop out of the stakes ranks altogether after kentucky.
if chuckas wants a bigger day on preakness day, he needs to make the other stakes worth coming too, instead of just counting on the preakness to make or break him.
make the black eyed susan a bigger race, move it to saturday. do like belmont did, with moving the met mile. he has to make the whole day a derby-type day. offer large purses, big races, do some schedule jiggling. he could offer a nice tune up race to the met mile in three weeks, he needs to try to appeal more to those who would look at maryland as a springboard to the big day in three weeks. live with the spacing from derby day, and instead focus on offering something that would induce people to run here as a move to ny in three weeks. it's a perfect spacing for that day.
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i agree with you on how to make preakness day a bigger day. and wouldn't it be easier to attract top horses(i.e. Wise Dan) if the preakness was 4 weeks after the derby? zero top horses that run on the undercard of the derby are going to run two weeks later. make it 4 weeks and you're gonna get some...especially if the purses are nice.