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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

In addition they should rein in the large stables by instituting a strict stall limit on NYRA grounds of 80 stalls regardless of what track they are located at. Make owners make a choice instead of just continously sending all the horses to the few outfits which horde them. If Pletcher can convince an owner that his horse should be racing at Delaware in a 37k MSW than in Saratoga for an 80k maiden then god bless them both. But if the horses were distributed among a greater variety of trainers you would see an increase in field size and quality in your better races simply from horses that were already training there.

I've often thought that the industry needs this sort of regulation nationwide, not just on NYRA grounds, its just that NYRA could actually enforce it. I'd love to see a national registry of sorts, where a trainer could only list a certain number of horses to race in his name, regardless of the horse's location, with an absolute annual cap.