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

[pointman]

So if a horse runs in the Carter and is beaten by 25 lengths, they end up on the poor performance list?

If a talented maiden blows the doors off a field by 15 and the second finisher is 10 ahead of the rest of the field, the rest of the field is on the poor performance list?

How does reducing weekday cards to 8 races help curb breakdowns?

Is there any evidence of increased breakdowns of horses running a race within 14 days of their last race?

On the one hand it is nice to see that there is not a complete assumption that every breakdown is due to the surface of the track and that some focus is being placed on horseman who may be running horses that are lame leading to breakdowns, on the other hand, I am having a bit of a hard time finding how these changes correlate to reducing breakdowns.