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Originally Posted by papillon

I'd like to see him promoting the classics of handicapping instead of helping to kill them. The Pegasus, just like the Donn it replaced, comes too soon in the year (or too late depending on how you want to see it). It may keep a big stars around for one more race, but it doesn't keep them racing. Make a superfund series with the Pegasus in July, sandwiched between the WC and BCC. We might at least get more 3 yos to come back at 4.

Move the Big Cap to Feb, so it can be a prep for the WC, move the Gold Cup and the JCGC to Memorial Day weekend, so they can be preps for the Pegasus on July 4, move the Pacific Classic and Whitney to the first weekend in August, move the Woodward and Awesome Again to Labor Day weekend, so they can BCC preps (the Awesome Again is, but the Woodward is at a weird time).

Have a superfund triple crown series, and east coast/west coast handicap series, with bonuses, and with a monster bonus to any horse that sweeps the superfund and handicap series. Then let horses rest from Nov to Feb. I don't know what race to pair with the Big Cap, maybe the Hal's Hope.

The Stephen Foster and Pimlico Special are on their own.

That's sentiment. Business doesn't run on sentiment.

In the business world, the Pegasus solved a real problem.