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Friday---First 4 races all short fields set up for Burke and Engblom Stable.No claimers, no lower level conditionsHow is supporting Burke and Engblom with less competition- helping the handle?? Just helps create more of a monopoly than it already seems to be.How is having short fields -not racing the rest of the industry participants beneficial??Meadowlands races amateurs-and full fields of lower-class horses--and the handle is actually BETTER!! Monticello handle is greater than Yonkers racing full fields of lower class horses.IMHO-there should be an investigation into how/why this is happening at Yonkers.William Shakespeare's Hamlet would say " Something is rotten in the State of Yonkers"
It has been this way for years and now you want an investigation?You seem to think purses and quality of horse have something to do with handle--and that is flat out incorrect. M1 and Monti handle well due to name recognitionYonkers could care less about their handleyou could race Bangor horses at M1 and they would still outhandle the otherspeople like 2 turn racing--they feel like they have a chanceM1 gives the aging fan base a warm and fuzzy feeling from the 70s and 80s, they prefer M1 because it brings back memories of yesteryear--thats why amateur driving races are used--it doesn't matter and it doesn't affect handleI could go on..but why bother?again, quality of horses and higher purses have absolutely nothing to do with handle.
Something ain't kosher. Why do you write an open trot, get maybe the same 5 horses every week and write a NW of 20K trot right behind it . It to draws 4 or so. Why not make it an open handicap and stop writing checks to the same people every week. How about the FM open trot. Same deal. Make it an open handicap and save $30K in purse money. We all know the current horse population is the greatest challenge to fill a race and a race card. But, Yonkers seems to be counterintuitive in its logic. I usually give the stakeholders the benefit of the doubt in such matters but, in the grand scheme of racinos and casinos, doing what is right for racing is not in the best interest of the casino and their shareholders.
just ask joe faroldo