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Originally Posted by Bigadam119
The numbers don’t lie and they say Preakness day is the 2nd biggest day for racing in most years. To see the race being deprioritized in any way is not a good thing overall in my opinion. To put it in perspective Preakness day handle last year was more than double Travers day and slightly higher than Breeders Cup Saturday.
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I would assume that NBC has something to say here too (I would not be surprised if they have approval power over a change in dates, at least unless the change is done when the TV contract turns over). NBC's incentives are conflicting- on the one hand, they definitely want the Derby winner in the Preakness every year. On the other hand, the compactness of the TC is probably a significant part of its attractiveness to television. If you spread it out a lot it might very well get lower ratings, because you lose that anticipation that builds when the races go bang-bang-bang.
