There\'s some good ideas here, but one thing that will never happen is big-time racing going up against the NFL, so you\'d have to keep it to Wednesday-Saturday.
The Claiming Crown on the Thursday before is interesting.
EdD
richiebee Wrote:
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> Respectfully guys, I never said that the addition
> of new BC races was a bad
> thing; what I did mean to say that the artificial
> separation of races for males
> and females serves no practical purpose and will
> probably go down as another
> failed attempt at promotion of the sport and the
> BC event.
>
> But I am not one to criticize an idea without
> proposing one of my own. Since we
> are going in that direction eventually lets expand
> the Breeders Cup to 17 races
> and I am being serious here.
>
> Start with the 7 \"Legacy\" races, the races that
> were run at BC One at Hollywood
> in 1984: Classic, Turf Classic, Sprint, Turf Mile,
> Distaff, Juvie, Juvie
> Fillies= 7
>
> Add to the mix the newly added events: F/M Turf,
> F/M Sprint, Dirt (or Synth)
> Mile, Juvie Turf, Juvie Filly Turf, Marathon = 6
>
> 4 new BC races: Turf Sprint, F/M Turf Sprint,
> Juvie Sprint, Juvie Filly Sprint.
>
> Would all of these races have full fields? Depends
> on if you made the Euros part
> of the program and encouraged their participation.
> Alan Shuback in DRF predicted
> decreased BC participation at the 2 upcoming SA
> BCs. He said it, I didn\'t.
>
> Spread the 17 races over 3 days-- Friday, Saturday
> Sunday. Do not separate them
> by age, gender or surface. Optimally, out of
> respect for tradition, the Legacy
> races would be run on Sunday.
>
> Run the Claiming Crown races at the same venue as
> the BC is being held on the
> Thursday preceding the BC races or the Monday
> following the BC races (I
> personally think the Claiming Crown races are very
> promotable even though I
> have never placed a single wager on this event).
> Some Quarter Horse
> championships the same weekend? Why not.
>
> Run the standardbred equivalent of the BC on the
> same weekend in the same City
> as BC or somewhere close--maybe on the Saturday
> night of the big weekend.The
> less I say about harness racing the better.
>
> Call it \"America\'s Weekend at the Races\". Find a
> network and some advertisers
> who are serious and competent and willing to
> present these races on TV properly.
> Cross promote with other aspects of the Equine
> Industry. Celebrate the horse
> and its place in American history (face it in 20
> years the average American
> schoolkid is going to think a horse is something a
> NASCAR driver used to crash
> into cement walls).
>
> The biggest 3 day H\'capping Contest ever held, a 3
> day all BC marathon of
> wagering to see who the best Capper of the year
> is? Positutely, as long as you
> dont try to televise it (Crist called the one hour
> telecast of a past DRF
> handicapping championship the worst hour ever on
> TV).
>
> Multiple race wagers which carry over the three
> days-- How about a Pick 6 which
> includes 2 races each day?
>
> Enough already. Its obvious no one pays me to
> create ideas, cause I could have
> sat in solitary for 24 hours with pad and pen and
> NEVER came up with the
> BRILLIANT idea to break out the female races and
> promote that separation of
> females from males.
>
> I think most female racing fans will be insulted.
> As a racing fan I find it
> inane that fillies and mares will have their own
> day; for as long as I can
> recall it seems as if the great females were
> allowed to perform on the same
> stage--on the same day-- as their male
> counterparts.
