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Old 03-02-2008, 05:57 PM
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hey, let's move the claiming crown to tuesday. enough filler, we can run for a week.
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Old 03-02-2008, 07:33 PM
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If you haven't read Lamarra's B-H piece linked above, you missed this gem:


" Peter Land, hired last October as chief marketing officer for Breeders’ Cup, said Feb. 29 the bolstered Friday program is attractive to ESPN and should help lure some local sponsors. Land, however, also said the decision to move the Ladies' Classic to Friday “was a racing decision first. The intent behind it was to create two separate but equal championship days.” "


Boy, that's a great choice of terms 'Pete'.. 'Separate but equal'.. rooted in the great American tradition of inequality and elitism! Congrats fellas! You did boffo! You showed everybody exactly how modern the thinking is around racing.
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If you haven't read Lamarra's B-H piece linked above, you missed this gem:


“was a racing decision first. The intent behind it was to create two separate but equal championship days.” "
What? Separate but equal! Where I have I heard that before? Oh yeah...I think Klan politicians used to use that exact phrase in the 50s...in a different context of course. Poor choice of words. Arrogance plus ignorance equals BC marketing.
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What? Separate but equal! Where I have I heard that before? Oh yeah...I think Klan politicians used to use that exact phrase in the 50s...in a different context of course. Poor choice of words. Arrogance plus ignorance equals BC marketing.
Well, separate but equal was actually the US court systems' explanation for upholding segregation in the American school system, (see Plessy v. Ferguson, c. 1898), until the landmark reversal in Brown v. Board of Education in 1956. But you've got the right idea. As Steve Crist said, every woman remotely connected to racing has ridiculed this slapdash farce.
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Not to mention that "Ladies Classic" sounds like a scent of underarm deoderant.
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They should just offer discounted or free admission for women on the Saturday card instead of segregating the horses.
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Well, separate but equal was actually the US court systems' explanation for upholding segregation in the American school system, (see Plessy v. Ferguson, c. 1898), until the landmark reversal in Brown v. Board of Education in 1956. But you've got the right idea. As Steve Crist said, every woman remotely connected to racing has ridiculed this slapdash farce.
the actual wording in plessy was "equal but seperate".

one of the great mysteries how that got reversed in common usage.
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Well, separate but equal was actually the US court systems' explanation for upholding segregation in the American school system, (see Plessy v. Ferguson, c. 1898), until the landmark reversal in Brown v. Board of Education in 1956. But you've got the right idea. As Steve Crist said, every woman remotely connected to racing has ridiculed this slapdash farce.
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