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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/edito...e.cgi?id=29896
On turf this is probably a good idea. There are no issues with field size in 2 turn dirt maidens at Saratoga. But limiting 6f and 7f 2 yo maiden races to 8 makes little sense except for the politically correct among us.
Sure it only affects a few races but it furthers a continuing and disturbing trend of negative reinforcement that racing horses is a bad or dangerous activity BY the leaders of the sport. The idea that a 10 horse field going 7f is going to somehow take away from the "quality" that a 7 (there will always be a scratch) horse field provides is bizzare.
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There is usually a high quality field going 7 on Labor Day weekend and it usually fills well. If I'm not mistaken, To Honor and Serve was second on debut in this race and it was a full field that day. My question is if they will have AE's. The first time that 8 horse field has 2 vet scratches, a stewards scratch and then a gate scratch (not that an AE would matter then) and becomes a 4 horse field will they still be bragging about the quality?
07-03-2012, 07:01 PM
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