Racing Secretary Nightmare
 

Y'all,

I can't help but feel sorry for Izzy Trejo, Delaware Park's racing secretary. Tuesday's Delaware card could only get 5 races with 32 horses which scratched down to 29 horses.

Regardless of the cause, this had to be a painful day for Izzy. I hope that the next entry day is more productive.

Stu

And one of those was an Arabian race. They don't care, they have slot money.

close the track. Or run 2 days a week and hopefully get 8 runners a race

I'll guess that this is a consequence of Delaware's (state) leadership in the fight against drugging horses. I hope they stay the course, and I'm very happy for this track, at least, that they have casino profits to help them over the rough spots.

HERE'S TO YA, DELAWARE!!! :jump:

Too bad, that was always a real nice track - very comfy to go to.
First time I saw Arabians, I was thinking WOW! These must be Delware-breds! :rolleyes::lol:

Now that is just too funny....... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thanks Tom I needed that today.

More likely, Dearborn Michigan breds.

They opened too early. Many horses down in Tampa are still in the process of going north and some haven't even left yet. Others will move over from Maryland eventually, but not til after Pimlico concludes. That is some of it, but simply put, I've never bothered with Delaware because the fields are too unreliable. Too many times a nine horse field has scratched down to 4 there for me to bother. I've always felt that it would be the first track where management and politicians suddenly decide that the horses take too much away from the slots and shut down racing. It looks very nice there too, so it would be a shame.

Right now the ban on steroids for horses in Delaware is keeping out horses that are still on them...which is making a normally bad situation worse.

The opening is not the issue and Tampa horses have not in the past shipped into Delaware. The issues are as follows:

1. Steroids ban in place at Delaware whereas there is no ban in Florida or Maryland;
2. The Gulfstream horses that would normally make the trek north to Delaware are by passing Delaware on their way to Monmouth;
3. The condition book needs retooling. Izzy has to be more creative by writing races that are different from other tracks..... where is the 4 life condition..... what about NW2Y for $5,000..... what about NW1Y for $10,000;
4. For too long Delaware has been held hostage by a small number of trainers and the condition book and race office caters to that group;
5. Telling outfits that they can not have additional stalls because the empty ones are resereved for horses that are coming;