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![]() Either Monmouth's or Zenyatta's fault... you guys choose.
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![]() Nycotb
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![]() Given the way horses, and 2YOs included, are campaigned nowadays, the Matron/Futurity were cannibalizing the Champagne and Frizette. Now, with the BC on dirt, the Champagne and Frizette should have more prominent fields. The last time the BC was held on dirt the BC Juv Fillies and Juvenile winners made their final preps in the Champagne and Frizette.
The Jerome was axed (which might cause Godolphin to disband) because the Kelso was switched to dirt. The Stuyvesant was a race that was out of place because by that time of year if you have a good 3YO he should either be in the BC, Cigar Mile or Clark. NT |
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![]() Here's a suggestion for NYRA.
LIMIT the number of turf races to TWO per day, at BEL and SAR. That way, whenever it rains, rather than taking races off, selectively or otherwise, for 2 or 3 weeks AFTER the fact, they can just run ONE race on each of the turf courses PER DAY, and go on with it. The idea is to pick winners, not try to handicapping WHICH races NYRA will take off the turf on a given day. This goes a long way towards 'respecting' both trainers/owners and handicappers. YEAH, I realize they didn't lose too many this year at the BEL meet but this was due to, essentially, a DROUGHT. |
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![]() They would have only had 5 Horses entered anyway. Unfortunately our great game of horse racing is "DYING"
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![]() I'm about the biggest NYRA basher around and even I see they have thier hands tied here. I say we enjoy the great meets at Saratoga, Delmar and Monmouth and wahtever happens in the fall we deal with it at that point.
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![]() Don't tell that to the brilliant core of racing writers - a good many of them are incapable of writing anything that isn't positive about our horses, our trainers, and most of all our racing.
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