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Saratoga Live - compress post times slightly to see all?
Having been back at Saratoga last summer and seeing actual lines at the betting windows made it easy to understand why there's been a longer-than-your-typical-track gap between post times there. There may be other reasons, but handling the on-track crowd seems like it would be the main one.
I enjoy the Saratoga Live show greatly, and my only real disappointment comes when we don't get to see:
1) a jump race that starts before the show slot; or
2) see no paddock and an abbreviated post parade of the first race with the first going off shortly after the show comes on; or
3) don't get the full followup (interview, replays, discussion) of the last race because of running close to or a little over the end of the slot.
It would be nice to see NYRA/Fox broadcast team consider(re-consider?) compressing the rest of this year's Saratoga post times just a bit so that we could see all of the pre-race and post race of all of the races. It appears that there's enough time available overall, and the consideration of the on-track fans isn't the same factor this year. Of course there may be other things at play I'm not aware of.
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Tom in NW Arkansas
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