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Originally Posted by Danzig
what i'm saying is instead of trying to appeal to the other horses who ran derby day, they need to work backwards from what the belmont has scheduled for 3 weeks later. their day is a good fit for what will happen in ny.
moving it to a month later won't necessarily help them, and there's a lot of resistance to it. and i don't know that all derby horses would show back up regardless of when the preakness is.
also, not all top horses are there on derby day, and a lot of top stables operate based on nyra and its schedule-so fill a niche with those people. they can draw top horses if they do it right. but just kvetching about the schedule isn't a way to make the preakness and undercard better.
look at their offerings in the other threads those two days. they need to shake things up. not every horse going to belmont on belmont stakes day runs in ky five weeks before. they need to re-do their races. they need preps for 3 weeks later, good purses, etc.
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that's part of the stickiness of it. they would need cooperation from belmont for it to work. personally, i think it would be ideal if all 3 triple crown races were spaced 4 weeks apart. of course that would cause a domino effect in stakes scheduling not only for churchill, pimlico and belmont, but saratoga, monmouth, etc. as well. i really think it could work though. imo, there are too many stakes races. a major scheduling re-haul is needed. less stakes races = higher quality stakes. as for derby horses returning for the preakness - no, not all of them would. but i believe more would than do now....just because trainers are much more comfortable running 4 weeks apart than 2.