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Originally Posted by davew
I like playing Aqueduct, but can anyone tell me why the fields are so small? It seems half the races have 6 horses or less.
There are tracks within 400 miles running 10,12, even 14 horses in many of their races for less purse. Are there NYRA requirements that many horsemen feel are not worth the trouble?
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Because many NYRA horses ship south to Gulfstream for the winter and the purses at the Mid-Atlantic tracks are at high enough levels so as to make a long van ride to NY as unattractive as possible; plus they don’t have to worry about NY’s high Workers Compensation payments. So with regular horsemen leaving and only a few people shipping in, it leads to short fields. Many Finger Lakes shippers will come in (those entities already pay for NYWC), but the classes will need to be lowered so as to make those horses competitive.
