Belmont Entries for 5/29.... Very Poor

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

While I think that there are entirely too many conditioned claimers offered everywhere, Belmont is hardly Premier enough to not offer owners of those types of horses an opportunity to win a winners race in NY. In theory the elimination of those races would increase the quality of horse running in NY. In reality it would lead to more NYB maiden 15 races and a further exodus of horses out of NY.

The fact is that there is already not a whole lot of incentive for an owner of non NYbreds to stable them in NY. Decreasing opportunities at this juncture makes a bad situation worse.

That was my theory- but you are probably right.

Sunday's card is really bad. 10 races, 69 entries before scratches (+5 MTO's), biggest field is only 8- and outside of the Kingston (which is really good), the rest of the races are just not good. Very sad.