@andyserling 1/I suspect Mott and Godolphin knew because of the Belmont being 1 1/4 Miles due to it being at Saratoga there would have been a HUGE asterisk next to any horse who won the TC this year, and most of use can cite Smarty Jones in 2004 as why (he went 2:00 3/5...
@andyserling 2/...to the 1 1/4 Mile mark in his Belmont that he would lose in the stretch). @TheNYRA should have made any Belmont at Saratoga 1 5/8 or 1 3/4 Miles on dirt or 1 1/2 Miles on turf (and I would have put it on the grass and risked a Euro preventing a TC in...
@andyserling @TheNYRA 3/...the Belmont Stakes). That said, going forward, what in my opinion needs to be done is NYRA, @ChurchillDowns and @PimlicoRC officials work together and have a $10 Million bonus pool exclusively for horses who race in all three Triple Crown races.
@andyserling @TheNYRA @ChurchillDowns @PimlicoRC 4/As I would do it, we would have a 10-7-4-2-1 scoring system for each of the three races with the top points earner who races in all three events getting $6 Million. $2 Milliion would got to second, with $1 Million for third, $500,000 for fourth....
@andyserling @TheNYRA @ChurchillDowns @PimlicoRC 5/...$250,000 for fifth and the remaining $250,000 divided equally between all other horses who race in all three legs. All horses who race in all three legs would be guaranteed bonus money for doing so. A horse winning the Triple Crown would also get a...
@andyserling @TheNYRA @ChurchillDowns @PimlicoRC 6/...an additional $10 Million, meaning any horse winning the TC would get $16,000,000 in bonus money for doing so. That is more than enough of an incentive for keeping the Triple Crown on their traditional dates (or moving the Preakness and Belmont Stakes..
@andyserling @TheNYRA @ChurchillDowns @PimlicoRC 7/...back by one week each since there were times in the past the Derby and Belmont were in a six week period, including in 1948 when Citation won the Triple Crown). The bonus money likely means many of the Derby horses back in the Preakness.
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