Would the Travers get more entries if Run On Sept 1

[saratogabrit]

The date of the Travers will never be changed to the closing weekend as the number of NYRA staff drops day by day after the Travers as most of the college kids head back to school and a lot of the High School kids take the closing weekend off to have a break before school begins.

I believe the Chamber of Commerce says that capacity in the town is reached only at Travers weekend and is about 130,000 which includes residents' (28,000 population), 38,000 or so at the track-a fair number of whom will be one of the locals and so at least 65,000+ tourists milling around town.

[Pedigree Ann]

The Travers is at a classic distance, 10f; the Haskell is at a miler distance, 9f. There are a lot of decent milers who can stretch to 9f and win, but very few of the class to stretch out to 10f against top stayers. With the preponderance of miler-breds in the breed today (and potential stallion managers afraid that their stallion will be tabbed a 'plodder' if they win too many longer races). the appeal of a 9f race for the same purse is clear.