Tom Chuckas on Preakness/TC Spacing

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Danzig

you've always had to be an 'iron horse' to win. people wanting changes are completely ignoring the history of the tc.
were there changes made between citation and secretariat?

if it's not rare, and not special-why bother trying for it.

the guy isn't trying to make winning the tc doable, he thinks his track is getting less attention. he may be right, but i don't think it's due to the schedule. md racing has been taking hits for some time, it's not because of the dates. it's because of purses and offerings.

First of all, it's not as if they've been doing it this way for 100 years. They've changed the schedule several times over the years.

I think it would still be special and relatively rare to have a TC winner if they added an extra week between races. Maybe they would get a TC winner every 5-10 years. I think that would still be a pretty big deal.