Every sport makes changes to create more scoring. I'm not sure people care that it cheapens their accomplishments.

The TC format needs to be altered. How about the first jewel being the Derby, the 2nd jewel being the belmont and the third jewel being the travers and switch the travers from late august to the first week of the meet in late july as the TC. That way, horses would have plenty of time to heal.

one more thing...to change the TC format isn't all that bad in my opinion because the game has changed. If you change the format to space more time in between races, it will be equivalent to what the olden day stuff was.

Here's an analogy. When dime breakage was introduced, the did so because they didn't want to hold up betting lines with tellers paying out 2.21 or 3.76, etc.

Now, most everyone has a phone account...all that money goes directly into an account. Why should phn account holders be subject to that dime breakage when they aren't holding up betting lines cashing for 2.21? Thats why the rule was introduced, right? Well, if thats the only reason payouts were rounded down to dimes, people with phone accounts should get the full payout.

Back then, that was the game where EVERYONE had to be live and ontrack. now, since the game has changed, it wouldn't be so far fetched if they changed that rule too. Other than Steve Crist, no one seems to write about breakage in publications. We need more crists who care about these tracks skimming pennies off our payouts.

The game has changed, so to change the TC to conform to the modern T bred's training regimen and the modern T bred's fragility wouldn't be such a bad thing.

The bottom line with any change in any sport is to create more revenue for the sport. More scoring in the NBA or NFL studies have shown that creates more exciting games and with more exciting games comes more revenue for the league.

Would spacing TC races create more revenue? Personally i think the Preakness 2 weeks after the Derby is ridiculous. No one cares about the Preakness. There is a HUGE letdown after Derby day...no one cares about Pimlico other than pimlico.