because there are enough people that do that already but how hard would it be to move the Breeders Cup away from Halloween?

The first thing anyone ever laments about in horse racing is that "there aren't enough young people in the game"

so what does the brain trust in charge of the Breeders Cup do? They schedule the biggest event of the year on a day that makes it very difficult for parents of young children (i.e. the "young people the game wants to attract") to attend the event.

I missed Halloween last year because we were running Testa Rossi and I was trying to make it up to my kids (my youngest is 7) for the next 2 months.

I haven't missed attending a Breeders Cup live in 10 years but I will miss the next 2 because of moronic scheduling

There's no way I can miss another Halloween this year to go to Santa Anita and then the geniuses schedule it for Halloweeen again in 2015?

I mean, come on fellas, this stuff isn't hard.

I don't care how old/disconnected/aloof, etc you are, it's just not that hard to get this stuff right.

Meanwhile, new NYRA racing secretary is onto alot of great ideas. Fewwer but higher quality races at the spa, no twightlight racing because it takes away from local merchants business, letting other tracks know post times ahead of time so big races aren't scheduled on top of one another.

All it takes is a little common sense to fix some of the issues that racing has. There are other issues that are harder to fix but at least let's get the easy ones right.

New NYRA racing secretary is doing it, Breeders Cup board isn't.