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Old 10-26-2014, 10:21 AM   #1
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Aqueduct-only 8 Races???

Did I miss the announcement? I looked at Wed & Thursdays cards at Aqueduct and see only 8 races. That makes me sad....

I know there's a decrease in foals but after watching NYRA consistently card ten races and many times eleven at Belmont, I am in shock that we don't have 9 races to fill on a weekday at Aqueduct.

Plus, Aqueduct is closing for ten days in December. Is Cuomo winning the battle on shutting down one of my favorite tracks to wager on???

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Old 10-26-2014, 10:35 AM   #2
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southern california has been at 8 races for quite some time now, northern california has 7 races many days. even Parx has had plenty of days with only 8 races, and now Mountaineer is down to 8 races where they used to have 10. when they had 10 i often found 2 or 3 races to play on a card. i like to watch the first 2 races to catch which way the bias of the track is before i bet my money. today we only have 8 races and the handle has dropped from close to $3 million down to about $1 million. it all means less races for me to play and less money to bet on those races.

as far as New York goes, i basically stopped playing there when they lowered the rebates 10 yeas ago. i have a strong suspicion that the handle there for the past Belmont meet has taken a very significant hit, while they had some execellent races.
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Old 10-26-2014, 10:35 AM   #3
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This time of year, they can't run turf sprints and probably running short on NY Bred maiden claimers.
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Old 10-26-2014, 11:07 AM   #4
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The lack of turf sprints didn't matter the last ten years.

I actually like NYB races. With the slot program, I don't believe the number of NYBreds racing has dropped off.

I view this as Cuomo slowly getting rid of Aqueduct and I am disgusted.
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Old 10-26-2014, 11:35 AM   #5
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Did I miss the announcement? I looked at Wed & Thursdays cards at Aqueduct and see only 8 races. That makes me sad....
Don't be sad; be happy!

Recent years NYRA's been dark on the Wed. & Thur. of the week they move from Belmont to AQ. Racing on these two days is a bit of "langiappe", courtesy of the good folks at NYRA!
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Old 10-26-2014, 03:43 PM   #6
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Did I miss the announcement? I looked at Wed & Thursdays cards at Aqueduct and see only 8 races. That makes me sad....

I know there's a decrease in foals but after watching NYRA consistently card ten races and many times eleven at Belmont, I am in shock that we don't have 9 races to fill on a weekday at Aqueduct.

In January and February of 1994 they ran SEVEN races a day at Aqueduct... everyone survived. We'll get through this one too...
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Old 10-26-2014, 05:57 PM   #7
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In January and February of 1994 they ran SEVEN races a day at Aqueduct... everyone survived. We'll get through this one too...
correct me if i am wrong, wasn't that when there wasn't co-mingling of simulcast pools and they had a bunch of races coming from Gulfstream and then Hialeah?
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Old 10-26-2014, 06:45 PM   #8
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correct me if i am wrong, wasn't that when there wasn't co-mingling of simulcast pools and they had a bunch of races coming from Gulfstream and then Hialeah?
I believe you are correct on the co-mingling. I think they were taking maybe 5 races from the Florida Tracks..

I remember it being a thrill to bet the out of town races..
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Old 10-27-2014, 12:06 AM   #9
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There are 9 on Friday

Whew... things are hopefully back to normal & the 8 race cards were because they opened 2 days earlier this year.
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There may be an abbreviated card on Saturday in deference to the BC. I've looked all cards, Wednesday to Friday at AQ and have an found an interest to play any of the races.
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Did I miss the announcement? I looked at Wed & Thursdays cards at Aqueduct and see only 8 races. That makes me sad....

I know there's a decrease in foals but after watching NYRA consistently card ten races and many times eleven at Belmont, I am in shock that we don't have 9 races to fill on a weekday at Aqueduct.

Plus, Aqueduct is closing for ten days in December. Is Cuomo winning the battle on shutting down one of my favorite tracks to wager on???
AQU has in recent years, maybe always shut down from Christmas to New Years.
If you think it is bad now, wait until they move to the inner. You would think with purses they offer, NYRA should be able to attract more entrants. You would think the horse shortage would effect the smaller tracks more than it does AQU. There is clearly something going on when trainers would rather run for less money at smaller tracks in roughly the same area. Is it a problem of not having enough stalls? It has to be something.
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AQU has in recent years, maybe always shut down from Christmas to New Years.
If you think it is bad now, wait until they move to the inner. You would think with purses they offer, NYRA should be able to attract more entrants. You would think the horse shortage would effect the smaller tracks more than it does AQU. There is clearly something going on when trainers would rather run for less money at smaller tracks in roughly the same area. Is it a problem of not having enough stalls? It has to be something.
Maybe it's because there's no real grandstand before the finish line to watch their horses run?

As a fan, I know I hate that.
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It's funny, the OP of this thread was able to do all sorts of navigating of the internet in the past, yet going to the, apparently, mysterious nyra.com and checking the condition book to see how many races will be run on certain days has proven an impossible task.
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Old 10-27-2014, 11:11 AM   #14
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It took a while, throw in two minutes to help my Mom with something, but I was able to see that there will be nine races run on Saturday.

I forgot to add, at least this thread allowed Big Bad Bobby Goren a chance to take a gratuitous shot at NYRA.
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Old 10-27-2014, 07:04 PM   #15
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It's funny, the OP of this thread was able to do all sorts of navigating of the internet in the past, yet going to the, apparently, mysterious nyra.com and checking the condition book to see how many races will be run on certain days has proven an impossible task.
Excuse me, Andy. If you checked the date and time of this thread (being created), you would see that at that time, NYRA.com had entries available for Wednesday and Thursday only, with 8 races being shown. As you know, entries came out for Friday's card on Sunday. On Sunday, I updated the thread to reflect the fact that there are 9 races for Friday's card, not 8 (like Wed & Thur) and how happy I was to see that.

I don't appreciate your sarcasm. For someone who's in a position to grow the game, represent NYRA publicly via TV, in person and the web, you're response to me was disappointing.

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