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Originally Posted by Thomas Roulston

Who else can remember the Aqueduct summer meeting, which ran from about the Wednesday after the Belmont Stakes until racing moved upstate to Saratoga?

This meeting was last held in 1976 - and in the last days of its existence, its highlights were the stirring, three-way battles among Forego, Foolish Pleasure, and Lord Rebeau.

And unless this is done, replacing the Inner Dirt Track with a second turf course will have been a total waste of money.

Both the start and the end of the Saratoga meeting can be pushed back two weeks, so as not to shorten it - and with two pre-Saratoga meetings instead of one, there would be fewer races taken off the turf, and therefore, larger fields.

I am convinced more than ever you just hate the way things are.