As I have never been a racing secretary, I might be missing something obvious but this has always bugged me.
Why wouldn't they put the two races back to back to create an all-graded stakes daily double with 182 combinations?
I don't mean to pick on CD here because basically every track does it. Just a general question and this is a timely example. I understand if one of the stakes has 6 horses in it and they want to put outside the pick 4 and don't want to run two stakes as 6-7 on a 10-race card. Or one horse is going to be 2-5 and they don't want it in the pick-4 or whatever. But these are two deep, big fields. Why not put them back to back?
The player that doesn't follow Churchill daily is far more likely to play a double w/ the two big-field stakes than they would be to play a pick-3 w/ two of them, or a pick-4 with two of them and two other races.
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