10/3 (BEL): JCGC, Hirsch, Beldame, Flower Bowl, Vosburgh (G1's)

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by jms62

True to a point however NYRA has to share responsibility for not putting pressure on trainers to enter a few horses to get fields of more than 4 and 5 horses. They can't even offer a Super...A cheap claimer can stagger home for 3rd money. The incentive awards at Toga seemed to work. Also, is it just me but the this years version of Beldame seems like a race I have seen over and over same horses battling it out.

You don't think stakes coordinator Andrew Byrne and PJ Campo were hustling to get every possible nominee and entrant they could for these races? The incentive awards? These are Grade I stakes and among the most important of their kind. Running in them is its' own incentive. And while runners get a 50% rebate on the fee for passing the entry box, it still costs owners money to run in these races. Instead of the blind and idol claim that nothing was done to fill the entry box better, I'd love to hear the names of the horses that were appropriate for these spots. And since they only pay for the top five finishers, who exactly of those staggering cheap claimers from those forthcoming lists were going to finish ahead of the Beldame or Vosburgh runners?

The filly/mare main track (Beldame) and sprint (Vos) division races were impacted by the glut of similar stakes on the schedule around the country and the synthetic track opportunities for same in a year where the Breeders Cup is being run on a synthetic track. And it must be just you that feels like the Beldame runners have been banging heads repeatedly, because among Music Note, the Team Valor pair, Copper State and With Flying Colors, only Copper State and Unbridled Belle have ever been in the same race: the 2008 Obeah.