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jmowreader

(53,348 posts)

6. That would bring another factor into it

Reply to ananda (Reply #4)

Thu May 7, 2026, 12:09 AM

Yesterday

The Derby was May 2. If you scheduled the Preakness Stakes for June 6 and the Belmont Stakes for July 11 (exactly four weeks this year is July 4) you'd be asking thousand-pound animals covered in hair to run 10 to 12 furlongs (when the race is at Belmont Park it's 12 furlongs, but this year it's at the shorter Saratoga Race Course because they're renovating Belmont Park) in extreme heat.

Which is worse? Running three races in one month's time, or racing in a New York City July?