Sunday at Saratoga-The Star of the Show

[Silver Charm]

You probably think it is Street Sense but you are wrong.

The New York Breeding Program is the Star of the Day. This completely overshadows the Derby winner. Is Street Sense running at Saratoga or Finger Lakes? I can\'t really tell. If the Rolling Stones, The Who or Springsteen had warm-up bands this poor they would refuse to take the stage.

I guarantee it.

The NY Bred fields are full and can be wagered on. But.....Saratoga is a venue where people are looking for the Stars of Today and Tomorrow. Even if we are looking at route maidens on turf or 1X types on turf or dirt there is that sort of, \"You never know what you might see next\" feeling.

We saw Four Pro-Tem divisional leaders perform and win yesterday. Certainly a rare day. Street Sense who is the current leader of his own division clearly shouldn\'t be asked to walk by upstate manure on his way to being saddled before he is ask to perform...............

[xichibanx]

You know I usually agree with you SC but I hit the $102 exacta in the manure race that was previous to the Street Sense race, thus I love the NY Bred today.  All kidding aside.  In my opinion, the racing secretary probably saved some his better racing for other days knowing he had the draw of Street Sense to command attention from others.  I must say though I only saw and/or paid attention to races 6-10 today as I was at a baby shower early (Not my kid) so if races 1-5 made Charles Town look classy please excuse my foolish comments.

[PapaChach]

I go back and forth on all the NY-bred races carded now. I can\'t escape the nagging feeling - and perhaps this is just the senitmental moi memory tricks talking - that the day to day quality of the racing back in the late 1980\'s, when my Toga addiction first kicked in and the meet ran for only four weeks, was far, far higher than it is today. The parade of NYBs seems to serves as an in-my-face reminder that things ain\'t what they used to be.

On the other hand, given that it\'s all the rage among the conditioners of the higher level or potential-rich stock to trot their horses out there like four times a year, I don\'t see how the racing secretary can card a lot of races for the Stars of Today and Tomorrow. Yesterday\'s gone, the days of Quick Call running three times in a four week meet are over, and there\'s thirty six days of racing cards to fill, and they sure ain\'t gonna fill \'em with classified allowances for could be any kind types who MIGHT run once a meet. So, why not reward the guys who are actually willing to run their horse flesh out there.  

A specific comment about today\'s four-bagger of NYBs, I would think maybe one factor (in addition to the Street Sense point mentioned above) was simply that the racing sec got scared by listening to the weather dolts who spent the past five days screeching about impending meteorological doom...\"torrential downpours\", \"slow-moving thunderstorms containing hail of Biblical proportions\", etc. Yeah...good job forecasting....