Gulfstream: Carding of races?

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

I think that's wrong.

Gullfstream can card as many grass MSWs as well as grass Allowances as they want. They do not need to card races for $10k claimers to make a turf race go.

They had a very big purse overpayment last year due to slots revenue being 1/3 of projected and are recouping. They didn't have that excuse last year and carded tons of cheap turf races then so that has limited validity.

Maybe this year's excuse is the Florida-bred only races they have to card which I think was part of the deal to open up full simulcasting at Gulfstream when Calder is running.

I think there are tons of MSW types both turf and dirt avaiable. It's not as if every trainer is dying to wait two months for the chance to luck into a field at Keeneland when staying on turf is questionable.

The only other plausible reason that makes any sense is they want to save some decent grass racing for the last 2-3 weeks of the meet to keep quality up and a few more good barns around. That would make some sense which means it's probably not their strategy.

First it was the purses are to cheap and now there plenty of horses dying to get into allowance or MSW fields but aren't because they arent carding them..oh

So Cpt. Thistledowns aka the racing sec. is doing this to save money and piss off the big stables who have supported GP for ever.. I am crystal clear..Thx

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by freddymo

First it was the purses are to cheap and now there plenty of horses dying to get into allowance or MSW fields but aren't because they arent carding them..oh

So Cpt. Thistledowns aka the racing sec. is doing this to save money and piss off the big stables who have supported GP for ever.. I am crystal clear..Thx

Oh my. Didn't mean to further confuse. I don't think he's intentionally trying to piss off the stables; it just happens as an extra special bonus.

I'd think the people at Gulfstream who were supported "for years" by the big stables are long gone and have been replaced several times over.

Maybe you're right there are few decent turf horses waiting to run. Makes you wonder what the 30-40 horses who work on the turf every day at Palm Meadows are doing.