{"id":4874,"date":"2009-10-07T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/citizen-nancy\/2009\/10\/40-days-of-what-racing-no.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:03:48","slug":"40-days-of-what-racing-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/citizen-nancy\/2009\/10\/40-days-of-what-racing-no\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Days of What?! Racing? NO!"},"content":{"rendered":"
My fellow citizens,<\/div>\n
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It has just come to my attention that next years Racing season will be extended to <\/p>\n

40 days. I’m putting my foot down. Enough is enough. <\/div>\n
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Ken Ivin’s has his VLT petition now Citizen Nancy will start her own petition against a 40 day<\/div>\n
Racing Season. <\/div>\n
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I will knock on every door, I will recruit volunteers and have this crap about a 40 Day meet come to a screeching halt folks.<\/div>\n
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Yes I realize that the 4 additional days of racing are in the beginning of the meet which is fine with me as long as NYRA drops the week after Travers.<\/div>\n
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Anyone with any sense knows that once Travers is over, Racing is essentially DONE! Continuing to have it open after that is just an act of desperation.<\/div>\n
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We’ve got to stop looking at Saratoga Racecourse as our prized Golden Goose that will continue to work for us so we avoid thinking of other ways to generate money for this town.<\/div>\n
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ITS THE SLOWEST WEEK OF THE MEET PEOPLE!! The Racecourse should rightly close after TRAVERS is over. Period.<\/div>\n
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How is keeping the track open even LONGER going to attract more revenue? IT WON’T!<\/div>\n
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I am a native of Saratoga Springs and I remember when the only people who went to the racetrack were people who knew something about horses, now its everyone and their mother schlepping the beer coolers with the ‘traditional track uniform’ shorts and flip flops who know NOTHING about horses. <\/div>\n
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Lets bring it back to 24 days AS WAS THE TRADITION and we were calling Saratoga THE AUGUST PLACE TO BE. Because it was. It was the perfect time frame, it left everyone including Saratogian’s begging for more. <\/div>\n
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Also, do the morons who run NYRA realize that we can’t stand racing people and that only reason that we put up with them and their incompetent driving skills is because it does generate money for town? But anything past 4 weeks is just asking too much of the good citizens of Saratoga. <\/div>\n
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Does NYRA also realize that they are LUCKY they are still running the place since they are responsible for ‘losing 200 million dollars by way of mass corruption and scandal? I’m sure they know they pulled the wool over some peoples eyes but not everyones. <\/div>\n
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If it wasn’t for Eliot Spitzer NYRA would have lost out on that contract, as they should have as I don’t know anyone who could “lose money” and still get to keep their job.<\/div>\n
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Oh, and another thing, next years meet will start on a FRIDAY and not WEDNESDAY?<\/div>\n
But what happened to TRADITION? Annnnnnnd Therreeeeee Offffffffff!!<\/div>\n
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Now, who wants to sign my petition?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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