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Originally Posted by CheckMark
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The article has a quote “before the traditional Aqueduct fall meet, which runs from Nov. 2 through Dec. 31”, those dates corresponding to a NYRA press release describing the Fall Meet as running through the end of the year.
In years past the AQ Fall meet ended on the weekend of the Cigar Mile. Racing that occurred after that became part of the Winter meet that runs through March. NYRA racing strikes me as changing significantly after Cigar Mile weekend. The jockey colony changes, some of the trainers vamoose, and those that remain are mostly running different stock–at least for maiden and allowance races.
In keeping with this re-branding, Equibase is going to report this year’s Fall Meet statistics combining all of December with November. It’s hardly of earth-shaking consequence…but if one tracks trainer or other statistics by meet, it makes a difference. Personally speaking, my database for the AQ Fall meet (& the year 2022) is going to end on December 4th.
