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Originally Posted by PA.race.fan
Hoping Mountainman can shed some light on this…
Why the WV Derby moved to Sunday night? And what will the card look like? Was this just announced, or did they make this change last year?
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The story linked in the post above this pretty much hits it. Less competition for handle and publicity on a Sunday night, plus no big races crowding our post time.
FWIW..For a long time, we DID run our derby after dark.
One thing the article does not mention is the down-sizing of our purse payout to include just two stakes , both graded, the derby and gov. Unfortunate, for sure, but a realistic revision that's been inevitable for several years now. Hopefully, fewer stakes will result in fewer scratches. And wholesale scratching has more and more gutted our derby undercard in recent years.