pip4126 Wrote:
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> Gate problems. According to the charts yesterday,
> there were 31 incidents of horses having issues at
> the gate.


There was a Saratoga meet once where there were huge issues with the gate crew and starter beginning from opening day. The outcry was so huge there was talk of firing the starter and gate crew and starting from scratch. I don't remember which decade that was in -- either the 90s or the 00s. Something like that.

NYRA historically has had issues with its gate crew unlike any other track in America. I don't know why that is. At times, it is so bad that I would mark down out of circuit shippers who were need the lead types. It was not unusual to see in a horse's PPs a slew of great first quarters but for whatever reason it could never do it in NY (and not due to better horses being in NY).