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Originally Posted by westernmassbob
Have tracks ever thought about incentivizing purses to keep horses from scratching when it’s an off track or turf to dirt change ? It seems like a ton of money is lost in take out when up to half the fields scratch when it rains. Hundreds of thousands are lost on an off track card day. Increase the purse on these poor weather days so that owners and trainers don’t scratch. I’m sure I’m being a bit naive as there is probably more to this but from a financial standpoint the track has nothing to lose because the more entries the more they make.
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This has already been tried. Article below was from 5 years ago, would have to say the experiment was worthwhile, but a flop far as keeping fields together:
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-rac...the-turf-races
