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I agree this meet is not one of their best so far. Constant short fields especially on the turf. Too many incidents where one has to believe the track conditions aren’t always as they should be. The NYRA judges are inconsistent and have made some big errors in my opinion. Although both Ortiz boys have finally been suspended the judges waited way too long to act. The weather is the weather. It has been bad everywhere this summer. Unless you enjoy betting with very little information, the track has so many Maiden Special Weight 2 year old races it turns me off. I am probably in the minority on this comment but betting seems to be about inside information not anything you can read on the racing form.
But the people who own those 2 yr old special weight maidens love it! They get a chance to get some return on their investments!
East Coast Bias much?Saratoga 2 yo's as highly important is fake news. Very fake. The last Kentucky Derby winner to break its maiden at Saratoga was Big Brown in 2008. The last Derby winner to RUN at Saratoga was Always Dreaming in 2017. Between the short fields, washed out turf races, horses dropping dead, whatever the fuck they let Linda Rice and Irad get away with for the first 4 weeks and the weather... awful meet. Some of it, you can't help. But 5 horse $30k claiming races is just bad management.
Not sure if stabling your horse at Saratoga Raceway would be considered getting lucky. Barns haven't even been painted since I was a groom there 40+ years ago. Forget about anything being repaired. At least NYRA occasionally does some work on their barns. I really think the harness track would love for the barn area to be abandoned like the Meadowlands. They already removed the training track.
