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The number of TB births is decreasing every year. Some tracks are going to have go or else we will get even shorter fields. Week day dirt fields are pretty short now everywhere. There does seem to be more turf horses these days so we get larger fields in turf races. I don't like that. Some of the problem seems to be that small trainers have trouble getting stall space for their claiming stock. The larger tracks would rather have a bunch of maidens who can't run a lick and take months off between starts trained by some big time trainer than a hard hitting bottom level dirt claimer who runs every three weeks or so trained by a small trainer. The big horsemen run the show these days and the bettor is an afterthought. It is no wonder that handles are way down from 10 years ago.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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