OMG, GP really screwed up putting its Derby on Sunday!

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Originally Posted by NTamm1215

The handle yesterday was great, no doubt about it.

However, they're stacking the Sat-Sun cards against last year's on FL Derby weekend. The Sunday card on Fla Derby weekend in 2010 had three cancelled races because of a quarantine at Calder.

If GP had done the smart thing and run the Fla Derby on Saturday they would have not only broken the record for the weekend but the individual card as well. That would have been more newsworthy.

It's all window-dressing for the mockery of a racetrack Frank Stronach made that into.

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.