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Originally Posted by OTM Al
They opened too early. Many horses down in Tampa are still in the process of going north and some haven't even left yet. Others will move over from Maryland eventually, but not til after Pimlico concludes. That is some of it, but simply put, I've never bothered with Delaware because the fields are too unreliable. Too many times a nine horse field has scratched down to 4 there for me to bother. I've always felt that it would be the first track where management and politicians suddenly decide that the horses take too much away from the slots and shut down racing. It looks very nice there too, so it would be a shame.
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Right now the ban on steroids for horses in Delaware is keeping out horses that are still on them...which is making a normally bad situation worse.