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Originally Posted by The_Turf_Monster
I would be very surprised if Gulfstream didn’t run the dates. Consolidating South Florida racing dates has been a battle that Gulfstream has been fighting for decades. And it’s too bad, because Gulfstream’s turf course, or any turf course that gets that much rain for that matter, cannot handle that many racing dates imo. The only alternative now is to hope that Hialeah doesn’t like being in the cowboy racing business of running untimed quarter horse races for a couple weeks a year to satisfy the casino license
Tampa’s bloodstock comes from horsemen that run regularly up north, while Miami pulls from the eastern seaboard
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It would still be too much racing, but Gulfstream has three turf courses in reality. Hell, they've run three rail settings on the same day without taking the others down. They shuffle between the three courses.
Part of the problem IMO is that they use them all instead of just running inside, then moving to the middle, then moving to the outside. That gives the other portions of the course time to heal. But they give them all daily wear so no part ever gets a real break.
