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Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1803262" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>There are 100+ tracks in the US and Canada, and they run any where from 6 mos to 9 mos a year, 6 and some 7, days a week. Usually 10 or more races a day. 99% of those races are for 4 yr olds and up. All of them are claiming races, designed to keep someone from running a Secretariat in every race every day, racking up millions in purses. Not hardly any of these are televised, unless it is on that cable TV network. Think of them as minor league baseball games, where as the Triple Crown races are like the World Series. If you go to a track and hang around in the stable area, you will see most of the horses arrive in 2-horse bumper pull trailers. People are taking their $2500-$5000 horses to these little races, just like they carry horses to the local horse shows. The KY Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes and Breeders' Cup are the most prestigious races with the largest purses, and that's why you see them on TV. But this week, out of the 100 tracks there will be 1000 races run. Those 6 figure purses are why some risk starting 2 yr olds racing, and risk losing the horse to injury.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1803262, member: 40587"] There are 100+ tracks in the US and Canada, and they run any where from 6 mos to 9 mos a year, 6 and some 7, days a week. Usually 10 or more races a day. 99% of those races are for 4 yr olds and up. All of them are claiming races, designed to keep someone from running a Secretariat in every race every day, racking up millions in purses. Not hardly any of these are televised, unless it is on that cable TV network. Think of them as minor league baseball games, where as the Triple Crown races are like the World Series. If you go to a track and hang around in the stable area, you will see most of the horses arrive in 2-horse bumper pull trailers. People are taking their $2500-$5000 horses to these little races, just like they carry horses to the local horse shows. The KY Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes and Breeders' Cup are the most prestigious races with the largest purses, and that's why you see them on TV. But this week, out of the 100 tracks there will be 1000 races run. Those 6 figure purses are why some risk starting 2 yr olds racing, and risk losing the horse to injury. [/QUOTE]
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