atrab subject..the scr of horses at bel

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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

That's what happens when fake stakes races are scheduled.

Owners of good horses enter them in order to get the black type. When the field turns up strong ... and the black type becomes less likely ... they scratch.

If that race were carded as an allowance ... which a $65,000 purse really is ... there wouldn't be that problem ... since there's no black type attached to winning it. You'd get genuine allowance horses entered.

Just a case of NYRA trying to fake people into believing that they're actually carding stakes races ... when they really aren't.

LMAO at this. From Mr ED to readig the minds of stakes quality trainers. Got to say, no topic is excluded from you making an a ss of yourself.

The only time I have a problem with a scratch is when the trainer believe his horse has no chance in winning or the race came up too tough. To me this is crap. Scratch a horse to protect the horse, don't scratch a horse for your own ego. What I think should happen is this and I have been in favor of this for many years.

I think each trainer has to put up $1000 to run a horse in a race. If that horse runs in the race then the trainer gets the $1000 back regardless of where that horse finished. The trainer has up to 1 hour before posts are to be drawn to scratch the horse. If the trainer scratches the horse in time then the trainer gets the $1000 back. Now if a vet or someone other than the trainer scratches horse after the posts have been drawn then the trainer gets the $1000 back. If the trainer scracthes the horse after posts have been drawn, then the trainer loses that $1000. That $1000 then goes into a jockeys fund

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again 2 scr in a six horse race..what a shame...