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Old 01-08-2007, 11:13 AM
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That was my point, BC races are worth a million, so why bother with a turf sprint when you only need to pay a little? Any of the horses you mentioned could have run in other races anyway.

If you have an all weather race, you now have two locations. My guess is BC races will just be run on polytrack if that is the venue. Noone is going to admit this stuff isn't dirt, and too many big tracks will have it so you won't be able to avoid them forever

If for some reason they did run an "all weather" race, isn't that like admitting the surface is inferior?
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Old 01-08-2007, 11:37 AM
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Since they can't seem to get anything but di cked-up tracks for this so called "important day," I could really care less about it anymore.They have turned it into a meaningless crapshoot.
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Old 01-08-2007, 11:55 AM
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That was my point, BC races are worth a million, so why bother with a turf sprint when you only need to pay a little? Any of the horses you mentioned could have run in other races anyway.

If you have an all weather race, you now have two locations. My guess is BC races will just be run on polytrack if that is the venue. Noone is going to admit this stuff isn't dirt, and too many big tracks will have it so you won't be able to avoid them forever

If for some reason they did run an "all weather" race, isn't that like admitting the surface is inferior?
Pretty much. It is fake dirt, although they are always trying to get more Euro involvement, and this would do that. But its only a matter of time before the BC comes back to Hol or SA...maybe AP will even get it again. So maybe adding a single race at another track would be a moot point.
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