49 "Win and You're In" races

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Thoughts?

http://www.drf.com/news/article/92273.html

You're in the wrong house----believe me.

[SniperSB23]

If they are going this far why not throw a bunch of top European races in there? Most of them won't show up but at least if they do they'll belong there unlike some of the horses that will qualify.

[DJK]

Originally Posted by tiggerv

Can't wait to hear about the win and you're in races for the dirt marathon. Hopefully they will card one at Charles Town where they can pass the start finish line 4 times.

Every time the horses pass the finish line, the attending crowd can count down the laps!

[DJK]

You know, I'd care if some of them were Gold ticket races. Win it and you're really in. No worry about being eligible or paying the entry fee. Of course, that could make the "preps" (races that were once worthy of winning because of their prestige) more interesting than the corresponding BC race.

(Not a fan of what this has done to the Saratoga schedule.)

[CSC]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

If they are smart they have it marked for the next two years. They are going to crush us on that cushion crap that makes average American turf horses into G1 and G2 winners. Imagine how legitimately good turf horses are going to run on it. We'll be 0 for 28 the next two years. Actually probably worse than that since they'll have added six new races by next year.

I really haven't followed the turf to poly/cushion angle for awhile, I think there was some validity to this when Keeneland went to it and to some extent Hollywood Park first went to it. I'm just not sure what to think as there seems to be mulitple forms of synthetic tracks making it hard to gauge. Will it be an advantage?