Why do they do this?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Alan07

Saratoga takes way too long time between races. Why not just adopt the Belmont post times?

Your incessant bitching is getting very, very old. Stay at Pace Advantage for a while.

[Alan07]

These are the post time they should use. But I assume for greed, they won't.

http://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbH...-SAR-20110817D

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Your incessant bitching is getting very, very old. Stay at Pace Advantage for a while.

I'm pretty close to making an "Alan's complaints" thread and consolidating everything into there. It will probably be 400 pages long.

Why is the Sword Dancer scheduled the same day as the Arlington Million? Is this also hard to avoid scheduling simmilar grade 1 races on the same day?

[OTM Al]

Everything came into question after NYRA created the AIDS....

[Danzig]

good point about the sword dancer/arl million, only one of many times that similar races vie with each other for entrants and attention. it's too bad that racing still competes with itself, instead of working together to compete against other interests.

[Cannon Shell]

At the risk of being blasted (I'm bored, it is pouring...) Alan's laying the blame on NYRA kind of distracts from the issue of tracks running races at the same time which IMO something that is easily solved with a minimum of effort. Is it really hard for the simulcast coordinators at various tracks to communicate when posttimes are identical? While understanding that there are various factors that come into play, would it kill these people to ask to take a minute here and there to avoid two races at the premier tracks to go off at the same time?

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

At the risk of being blasted (I'm bored, it is pouring...) Alan's laying the blame on NYRA kind of distracts from the issue of tracks running races at the same time which IMO something that is easily solved with a minimum of effort. Is it really hard for the simulcast coordinators at various tracks to communicate when posttimes are identical? While understanding that there are various factors that come into play, would it kill these people to ask to take a minute here and there to avoid two races at the premier tracks to go off at the same time?

Am sitting in the Jockey Club Round Table presentation -- it's intermission -- and earlier the technology department talked about the enhanced InCompass Post Time Coordinator system that apparently is well on its' way to being widely installed. Would like to have heard more about it, but it was dwarfed by the important phony posturing on anti-medication...