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Post by hesnotmypres on Feb 15, 2014 5:58:38 GMT -5
AQUEDUCT & Laurel Park has cancelled LIVE racing Sat,Feb 15th
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Post by hesnotmypres on Feb 15, 2014 7:50:41 GMT -5
@drfgrening: AQU has cancelled Saturday's live racing card
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Post by Evelyn on Feb 15, 2014 11:18:11 GMT -5
Aqueduct
Charles Town
PARX (per PARX site)
Penn National
Turfway
Freehold
List of Live Racing Cancellations for Feb. 15
By Ron Mitchell
Bloodhorse
Snow, ice and cold temperatures continue to impact U.S. racetracks, with at least four cancellations of live racing for Saturday, Feb. 15.
The latest cancellation came early Saturday when the Maryland Jockey Club announced there would be no live racing at Laurel Park for the third consecutive day. The $300,000 Barbara Fritchie Handicap (gr. II) and $100,000 John Campbell Handicap have been rescheduled for Saturday, Feb. 22.
Laurel is scheduled to resume live racing Monday, Feb. 17, with two stakes highlighting the President's Day card.
Tracks that had previously cancelled Saturday racing are Turfway Park, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, and Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course.
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Post by mackdaddy on Feb 15, 2014 12:20:47 GMT -5
All of those tracks should close in january and february. Its not even worth wasting money sending horses when there is a good chance live racing will cancel at least 2 times a week.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2014 12:48:11 GMT -5
All of those tracks should close in january and february. Its not even worth wasting money sending horses when there is a good chance live racing will cancel at least 2 times a week. I agree. That's the way it was 30 years ago, back when racing was thriving. |
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Post by cait on Feb 15, 2014 13:43:02 GMT -5
disagree with both of ya!
winter racing has nothing to do with racing's decline - it gives local small outfits chances to bring home some $ as the "big boys" have gone south - there aren't that many shippers from long distances - usually just the mid-atlantc thru ny area - a few will maybe ship in for a few big purses - a lot of horses thrive in the cold and you can catch some good longshots - horses prefer cold to hot, humid weather
this has been an uusal winter - mack - you've had cancellations in your neck of the woods due to cold weather, not even snow! that's not typical
george - i think laurel began winter racing in the 60's when they enclosed the grandstand - dunno re Big A - think W VA always has had winter racing - with Shenandoah and after Shen closed
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2014 14:10:39 GMT -5
I thought Bowie was the Maryland winter track? We planned a couple of "road trips" down there, but never really pulled it off. Here's a really good story about winter racing at Bowie in the 1950s. (oops, forgot the link: colinsghost.org/2009/01/winter-racing-and-bowie-breed-1957.html ) I didn't mean to imply that winter racing led to the downturn, but meant back then even when racing was thriving they didn't race year round. I think Aqueduct started winter racing in the mid-70s, and there obviously wasn't any racing in Pennsylvania. The two "major" tracks that raced in the winter were Lincoln Downs in Rhode Island and Bowie. Even the NY harness circuit (Yonkers and Roosevelt) closed down for a couple of months in the winter. If tracks can no longer support five or six days a week in the summer, maybe shutting down for 2-3 months in the winter would help the spring to fall racing seasons. |
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Post by cait on Feb 15, 2014 14:21:41 GMT -5
not sure geo - maybe they shared the dates? remember going with my dad and on the way, shedding some of the clothes my mother insisted i wear lol will have to go thru the box of programs my mother saved - been meaning tp post some - think there are some really old ones
it was before the 50's (before he was married) that my dad spent the night at Bowie due to snow - loved him telling that story!
think since the horses on the grounds are so different in the spring - fall, the answer is cutting back days during the those meets - not doing away with winter racing -
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2014 15:05:34 GMT -5
That night at Bowie was mentioned in the Colin's Ghost article - even though everyone was warned that there would be a snowstorm, more than 13,000 showed up and as many as 3,000 slept overnight in the clubhouse - it was February 1958. Amazing that someone in your family was there that night. I guess you were destined to be a degenerate like the rest of us.
Apparently winter (specifically February) racing at Bowie had been going on even earlier than 1958 - according to the article the 1958 season was the earliest start, by about a week, than ever before.
According to Wikipedia (which isn't always right), winter racing at Laurel started in 1966.
I'd like to see some of those old programs. I started posting a few last week but the weather and stuff got me off the subject. I'll scan a few more too (maybe the pages instead of the covers - the jockeys, trainers, and horses might be more interesting??)
By the way, I know I mentioned a couple of times that I never was at Charles Town, just Shenandoah Downs. Well, I came across two Charles Town programs so I guess I was! And I never realized that I'd been to Laurel Raceway (the harness track) too.
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Post by mackdaddy on Feb 15, 2014 15:44:48 GMT -5
The caliber of horses that run at laurel are just as equal if not better than those at tampa or calder. God made snowbirds for a reason. I understand the "little guy" or smaller outfits depend on winter racing to pay the bills. But enough is enough with this running 2 days a week crap. How can any horseman make a living doing that? Tracks tend to get way to greedy with the mentality of running in lousy winter conditions. Its not like they pack them in when the weather is nice either. Truthfully, oaklawn shouldn't be running in january either if it makes anyone feel better
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