In The Sulky Forum

Interesting.  At first I was a Gural fan, heck he is the "savior".  But now that the smoke has cleared, well... 2 days a week? Come On and you demand respect, loyalty, legions?  You basically eliminate an entire group of races aka filly/mare races, your purses are lower, and top drivers are at a premium and you want horse owners to commit to the Big M??  The industry has changed over the years, specifically what owners race.  There are less and less claiming races as owners, including the Big Hitters like the Burkes, have turned their attention to the babies.  There are no more 30, 40, 50 claimers, and I'm not sure how owners feel about having someone arbitrary classifying their horses aka C1, C2, B1, B2, etc.  Then you also have a track like Dover that will penalize you a week if you race at Dover, then try to race somewhere else.  I think he shouldn't have taken such a rough edge, hard line stance/comment like he did.  He should have been more sympathetic towards the owners/trainers.  Really, why would they care if they raced at the Big M during the grand Re-Opening Weekend.  In 30 days, 3 month, 3 years, 30 years, it will mean nothing to them or anyone else.