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Originally Posted by thespaah
Ok...Would not shipping in to Colonial be a choice?
And if a barn did not have any grass runners , would they not simply race somewhere else? Like Delaware, Parx or Monmouth?
Those tracks are closer anyway.
Look, I saw a bunch of boo hoo by Mid Atlantic based horsemen who opposed the existence of Colonial during its first iteration. They complained because they felt CNL took away horses from Maryland. How dare Virginia do such a thing. Well, they worked very hard to get the VA Horsemen to shut down CNL...They succeeded. Then, another group of horse owners and other interested parties revived the track. Because of its success , Churchill Downs Inc stepped in an bought the place. If the track wasn't doing well, I doubt the investment would have been made, if the track wasn't performing. The 2023 Meeting saw a significant increase in both on track attendance and all sources handle. Over one half million dollars in avg daily purses. Avg field size was a bit over 10 starters.
Maryland Racing....For them I have a solution. Get better. That is how one business competes with another.
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As for the boo hoo of Md. horsemen, fans can only know what they read. But like many topics, the entire story is difficult to hear without a biased assessment. Horsemen have not always been right. Far from it. But management has not either.
The 2023 statistics are great but I am talking about 1997, 98,99 not 2023. Not even 2001 as I retired from the game earlier that year. In hindsight, from what I have seen since, thankfully.
So please, you Look. Your facts are really not in line with The facts of what actually happened. I am not about to argue with you on this subject. I shed a light on a portion of it that many, including you, obviously never knew. Sometimes, no most times, seeing something from another view casts a whole new light on the totality of a subject for someone trying to form an objective opinion. The light I cast was not an opinion or hearsay, it was reality and the truth. Something that is harder and harder to find every day.
So for that, your welcome, kind sir.
