BC and Keeneland explain the two days.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by MonmouthParkJoe

Hey Andy! yea man hanging in there as best as possible. The program is interesting at least. Although I was attacked by coyotes twice. Fortunately had my dog Charlie aka freight train with me. Don't have to worry about that stuff back in jersey. Opening day cant come soon enough.

Beautiful animal!

[Dark Horse]

Not sure about this BC. Why take the weather risk? Races are off the turf today at Keeneland. With the Triple Crown races in the East, would it really be so hard to permanently station the BC in the West? If only to get the weather issue out of the way. It seems to me, at times, that horse racing can't get out of its own way.

[Stillriledup]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

Not sure about this BC. Why take the weather risk? Races are off the turf today at Keeneland. With the Triple Crown races in the East, would it really be so hard to permanently station the BC in the West? If only to get the weather issue out of the way. It seems to me, at times, that horse racing can't get out of its own way.

At times? No reason to take weather risks.

[Dark Horse]

I was being diplomatic.

[Waquoit]

Originally Posted by Stillriledup

At times? No reason to take weather risks.

It's not fair to East Coast fans and connections to have the BC out west every year.

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by Waquoit

It's not fair to East Coast fans and connections to have the BC out west every year.

I've heard things like this before, and I have never understood it. Since when is siting of a championship event supposed to be "fair" to some group of fans?

Is it "fair" that the College World Series is in Omaha?

Is it "fair" that the Super Bowl is almost always in a warm weather locale?

Is it "fair" that the World Cup goes to places like the US and Japan where they don't give a hoot about soccer?

I'm not saying that the Breeders' Cup HAS to be in California every year (Belmont, for instance, is a perfectly decent site for it), but there's a reason so many of them have been held in California and it does have to do with the facts that (1) we support it with big crowds and (2) we have good weather.

You know, we could move the Triple Crown around too. Why not hold that at Santa Anita, Golden Gate, and Del Mar next year? You east coast types have had it for too long, after all. :P

[Tom]

You know, we could move the Triple Crown around too. Why not hold that at Santa Anita, Golden Gate, and Del Mar next year? You east coast types have had it for too long, after all. :P

The idea of the BC was to move around every year.
That has been revised, over the years, to just make as much $$$ as possible, like Woodbine is doing this year, while pretending to give a crap about racing.

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by Tom

The idea of the BC was to move around every year.
That has been revised, over the years, to just make as much $$$ as possible, like Woodbine is doing this year, while pretending to give a crap about racing.

Go check the publicity surrounding the 1984 Breeders' Cup. Actually, Gaines' idea was to hold most of them in California. (Three of the first four were here.)

Not that this really matters. Even if the original intent WERE to move them around, that doesn't mean that it would be "unfair" to east coast fans not to.