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Originally Posted by Hambletonian
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Well, I know there has been a void left by the old Waterford Park, the only place in North America where a $1500 claimer could run on the grass, but this is just silly.
No offense to Finger Lakes, but spending money to install a turf course there is a complete waste. The only horses that run there are, egads, statebreds too slow to race on the NYRA circuit, supplemented by other horses too slow to make it anywhere else in the northeast. Unless they think they are going to raid Fort Erie.
If they really want to do something, turn it into a one mile harness raceway a la the State Fairgrounds, and close all those half mile raceways upstate.
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You made sense until suggesting a harness track might work out better. Vernon is effectively a mile track and no one cares. What does it handle? Nothing. I guess if you closed down most of the competition such a track might do marginally better.
