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Originally Posted by ronsmac
Bigger fields? What races were you watching? Saratoga’s average field size was 7.4 per race, Del Mar's was 8.4 per race.
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I'd prefer to see a breakdown of field sizes by race type.
For example, Saratoga carded 216 turf events out of a total of 405 races. 38 were rained off. As we know, turf races tend to have larger fields. Saratoga lost 17.8% of its turf races. Those fields can sometimes get cut down from as many as 12 starters to as few a 4 or 5. So , we should be careful to put the numbers into context.
DelMar has no such issues with losing turf races because, To borrow a song lyric, "It Never Rains in Southern California".....
