I would need a career day just to Break Even on tolls and gas!

but few people knew that.

Haskins has good insight into his lack of a closing kick. It is on his blog in the Bloodhorse.

The tip of LI is Montauk. Belmont abuts NYC and NY'ers are very much used to taking public transit and "changing trains" is common practice. Belmont is on the Cross Island and when I lived out in Suffolk Cty, I never had a problem getting there unless some jackass flipped his car on the LIE.

I think you are overstating the difficulty of getting there. I wait in far more traffic getting into Saratoga than I did on the Cross Island on Sat.

Blackthroat...to my mind, the boxes looked empty. I'm sure that there were many more there than most Saturdays but compared to the last 2 years JCGC days, it was deserted. I was expecting that it "might" look like at least Gold Cup day. Wishful thinking...

I hear you. I guess it's just a case of " everything is relative " and considering I am one of the few that sits there pretty much every day it at least felt like it was crowded Saturday.

I think one of the biggest problems, so to speak, is that July, especially after the holiday weekend, is even more quiet at Belmont than normal, as it's almost a dead zone before Saratoga, and Curlin's appearance sort of caught the general populace by surprise. Also, unlike a lot of people, I don't particularly believe that a supposed " superstar " racing can save the game ( whatever that means ). Sadly, it's just not that big a deal, especially in NYC where nothing is that big a deal.

True... I didn't know till I got there.



Personally, I thought it was pretty decent attendance. My friend who only comes with me a couple times a year remarked that he thought the parking lot was very full relative to normal... We only stayed for a few races because we went to the Mets game (which I'm sure hurt attendance some as well, being a 4 pm start and there's definitely some crossover in fans)

I think your dead on here. Why would I drive 3.5 hours to see if a "superstar" can beat himself on turf or not. Give me a race with 3 or 4 really good four year olds and I'm there in a heartbeat.

LS with its so called minor league racing had just short of 13k in attendance. With attendance such a minor factor. Iwonder how the track has a chance in hell to florish with the severly restricted simo outlets.Im sure the State needs to do its part by legalizing account waggering, Nodoubt that SOcal ,NY, Fla,and La tracks get a lot of action from the LS simocast pavilion, Wondering how much action the various tracks get at LS.

Problem is there aren't 3 or 4 really good 4 year olds. Not sure if there are even 2 of them.