Colonial's future in real doubt..

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Originally Posted by phystech

I'll agree with part of your post, and disagree with other parts.

Delpark is far from on a roll - and I'll assume you were being sarcastic without the smiley. They have trouble filling their fields because a lot of the horses that should be running there are being sucked away by ill-advised turf tries at CNL. And yet, I agree that at certain levels CNL had no affect on Delpark.

In the Mid-Atlantic, I'd say that more than 70% of the horses making turf tries, shouldn't be racing on the grass and are doing so only as a last resort. The old "...well, we've tried him short, long, with blinks, without blinks, - what's left. Hey, how about putting him on the lawn". And I'm guilty of this myself. Those horse would fill fields at Delpark if they stayed on the dirt and ran at a level they should be run at.

Close it and sell it!!

From my understanding Delaware has hard time filling and or getting full fields b/c they draw like a week or so prior to race day. That's the only track in the world where a match race doesn't come as a shock to me.
Colonial is what 90% turf? Delaware might run what 2-3 a day in the summer on turf? The only thing i can see you getting upset about is if some N1X or OCN2X horse that goes down to Colonial to try their luck at some type of 50K HCP race just b/c the field is more then likely gonna come up a little softer then say a OC race on the grass at Delaware. Now that PA has got the slots i wouldn't worry too much about the little slice Colonial takes from that track, but rather Philly Park and Penn now a days

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