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Originally Posted by affirmedny
It's hard to feel sorry for them, they don't do much to help themselves. Last Friday with NYRA and Del Mar dark would have been a great opportunity for them but they were dark(Woodbine handled 6M). It would have been a rare chance for their races to be featured on TVG without being up against more popular tracks. Also Sunday they took the races off the grass in the middle of the card(it was not raining, I never heard the reason given). What are they saving the turf for this late in the season? They also own the OTB in Woodbridge which is poorly run. It's very obvious management are horse people, not gambling people.
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True. They should have pivoted the schedule when NYRA shut down for nearly 2 weeks. Regarding Sunday, we had gotten a lot of rain here Thursday- and I think it was a bit localized so maybe not everyone got it- the course isn't drying well due to cooler days and they were clearly chewing it up and times were quite slow, but still I was still surprised. Maybe a safety concern. They still did >$5 million on a football Sunday which was >2x 9/8/19 and 2.5x 9/15/19 (with Belmont running), which speaks to why they should have been running 9/11!
