Primetime Derby?

[Merlinsky]

I was listening to the reairing of Steve's show (sorry, Steve it was a pretty day out, I had to catch you later) and with Steve Haskin's point that Saturday primetime not working as well for scripted shows and I've always heard it described as a graveyard, I wondered what everybody's view here was.

Do we need to just get used to the idea and try it out over time for graded races at Churchill to make sure it's not just novelty that things went well the Friday they did it? Is it a horrible idea? If it's good to do it on a Friday, should they consider going from Ladies' Day to Ladies' Night and run the Oaks that way instead? I'd imagine all the stuff going on at night before the Kentucky Derby, I wonder if it might stir some horses up when they could use a good night's sleep. I don't know that I have enough information to analyze myself and develop an opinion. I'm still brainstorming pros and cons along with what they'd need to prove first if they did do it. One of Steve's callers said something about an overlap of the NFL Draft and the Derby next year, but that's the first I heard about that. I just thought I'd mention it as an aside.