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Originally Posted by tector
How do 3 nothing races on a Sunday last year add up to more than $7.5m difference?
Really, I am amazed how people here have no idea at all how racing works down here. Saturday was a big day because, primarily, it was a big stakes Saturday. Sunday was a big day that GP manufactured by manipulating its stakes calendar by one day. They got a Haskell-like Sunday out of this move. The combined handle more than demonstrates the wisdom of this move, but expecting people here to acknowledge that their Chicken Little act was baseless is just too much, I guess. I guess the old adage that even a stopped clock is right twice a day cannot be allowed to apply to anyone employed by Frank Stronach.
Next I expect to read how Hialeah will do better when they start running the Flamingo again.
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Does South Florida exist in some kind of vacuum that keeps conventional things at other tracks from happening there? It has nothing to do with South Florida.
The focus of the GP Operations team this year was to have a bigger weekend than FL Derby weekend in 2010. Their focus was never to have a bigger Fla Derby DAY because the 2010 number was huge. Now, little did they know that the GP signal was going to be more popular this year than it has in years because of new wagers, some low takeouts, good weather, etc.
The point that I made in this thread, and before, was that they shifted the focus from an individual day to a weekend. Judging by how well they did on Sunday, they would have beaten the 2010 mark handily if the FL Derby had been on Saturday. The "Ladies Day" card would have done roughly 70% of what it did and they would have gotten a FL Derby day record and a FL Derby weekend record.