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Originally Posted by randallscott35
Streve, as was said by a previous poster, horses run in that kind of heat routinely in other parts of the country. With precautions taken, they could've run. I love Nader and the lot there, so I'm not throwing stones, but I do trust in the judgment in some of the best trainers and jocks in the country....Still, they run harness horses in Toga in Feb at -5 degrees. So 22 in NY on a Friday doesn't strike me as a reason to cancel. Even with some wind built in.
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The jockeys are the reason for tomorrow's cancellation....not NYRA. The simple fact is they could not be relied on to race and it was unfair to expect people to bring their horses to the detention barn, at the time the temperature would have been at its coldest, and then have them not even race.
The decision was made out of fairness to everybody BECAUSE of the unreliability of the riders. As opposed to Saratoga, where it was correct to cancel, I think tomorrow's cancellation is a mistake. It is winter racing in the Northeast, at a racetrack just off the bay, you can't cancel when it gets cold.