Ancient Richie Bee??? (1091 Views)
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jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: May 26, 2009 04:57PM
Ancient Richie Bee,
I am not sure about you being 20 years older than me. I 42 and aging very fast. Every photo that goes the wrong way adds a month to my age Covelj may be a pup, but Silver Charm gives his age away with some of his posts, and I would set the over/under at 58.5.
I hear you about Saratoga losing some of its lustre. The world does change and the racing world does not revolve around the spa meet.
Respectfully disagree with you though on most of your post. Yes, there are diluted fields in New York, relative to 10 or 15 years ago. However, I will take this Belmont meeting over the ridiculously diluted Hollywood park meeting any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I am pretty sure that not even our resident west coast apologist P-Dub could argue that 4 races a day at hollywood with 5 runners, is good for racing. To me, it epitomizes the fallacy that is synthetic racing. Horses were supposed to be sounder, safer and be capable of longer campaigns. Funny how old NY Dirt racing has so many bigger fields than the carpet racing out west.