NYRA to no longer accept entries from horses who ran <14 days ago

[ScottJ]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

I'm not sure that this rule will necessarily lead to shorter fields. It may make certain races harder to fill, but those races that do fill may end up with larger fields (as each condition tends to come up every three weeks in the condition book, and if you pass one book race, you may not run for six weeks).

52.

The very best thing that happened to NYRA today is that everyone involved in playing the horses was focused on Las Vegas.

There were only 52 horses today in nine races at NYRA. Two 3-horse fields, two 4-horse fields. Five races that might have been playable on the card. Andy Serling must have been tearing his remaining hair out today.

Back in 1986, Paul Moran was relegated to covering the opening at Suffolk Meadows in May in addition to his usual NYRA responsibilities. His column started with the observation that only 55 quarter-horses passed the entry box and proceeded to slaughter the re-opened track.

What would Paul think about the impact of today's 14-day rule and the fact that management at NYRA believes that the problem with breakdowns is in the difference between x > 14 and x >= 14?