P-Dub wrote:

"There are too many other races to choose from for a trainer. When they don't run we are left with a bunch of overmatched horses. Is this really what we want with our "best' races??"

The answer is HELL NO.

Besides trainers who think this way there people, or so I've heard, who actually calculate speed figures and for a fee advise owners on which venue to ship to, to win the most money they possibly can while facing the easiest possible competition.

Can you imagine this???

Why not ship your horse wherever MDO is, get no break in weights and if say Congaree shows up, run for third or fourth money in a 500K race when you could have gone to Turfway or somewhere else and run for the same amount of money.

Your the owner which one are you going to choose??? Which place would your advisor tell you to go???

And how can places like Turfway (etc) afford to put on Cards like this???