I'm usually more up on this but where does the Breeders Cup head next year???
Any thoughts on it going cable only via ESPN???
And I find it odd, but wasn't it year two of the World Thoroughbred Championships "name", a name only used via the broadcast media it seems. I never did get the change from Breeders Cup to WTC .... Heck I forgot all about that name till I turned on the TV
Is it possible I heard Monmouth Park would get a shot at it next year? Smaller circuits haven't usually handled the event very well (Woodbine, Lone Star) but I thought I heard that.
I think I have gone to my last BC. I don't think it is NYRA's fault, but the Breeder's Cup themselves. This year there were temporary stands from the finish line to the 1/16 pole that were half full making it impossible to get near the rail to view the races. I am not someone that will spend $75 to $140 to sit in a seat and freeze my a$$ off to see a bunch of horse races.
The rent-a-tellers-for-a-day were horrible. If you were sixth in line, it took as long as ten minutes to place a bet they were so inept. The SAM machines were all replaced by these morons. The food was inedible as usual. Pretzels, the only harmless food at Belmont, went from $2 to $4. Beers were $7.
Belmont, when in NYRA's hands, can run the Belmont stakes smoothly with 100,000 in attendance. The Breeders Cup with only 54,000 was run very poorly and catered to the swells only.
I would love to go to Monmouth for the 2007 BC, but the venue is just too small and the little guy will spend his entire day standing in line waiting to make bets with no opportunity to really see anything other than on a TV screen.
I'm thinking about going too. I looked at a map, only 3.5 hours away. I'd been to the BC there once before, wasn't too bad service wise, though chilly. Glad I brought my gloves to hold the cold beers <G>..... could have made a killing with the glove, scarves, shoes stand LOL. The women were using the generator behind us to keep their feet warm.
Heck my only problem was being too prepared .... programs available at the hotel the day before so I wrote my bets down. Had lots going into the sprint, the race before and the sprint being second half of a double. Loved Harness Hitch at 40-1 and wrote the $10 9-9 double down on the second page as I'd run out of room. Didn't turn the program over when making the bets and missed the doubles. When the 9 won my friend asks did you make that $10 double bet you were blathering about the night before ( a tad drunk and stoned). At that point I realized the oops. He said, well you better not look at the will pays. That became a moot point as Sheik Albadou (9) won and I sat there about $750 up from those two races with an empty feeling ...... out $2,800 ...... five times.
