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[Mark Peel via Derby]

 The opportunity to rethink the spacing of the Triple Crown races, scrambled by Covid-19 last year, now seems to have gone by, and racing is right back where it was--mired depressingly in "tradition."
I wonder, though, if the defections of Caddo River and Mandaloun, added to the 16 other Derby runners who won't be in the starting gate for the Preakness, might not give the authorities at Pimlico (and Belmont) a reason to consider adding a week or two additional breathing space after the Derby.  In the 21st century, Grade I thoroughbreds do not race on two weeks' rest, and never will again.  Sticking with the current two-week interval guarantees more mediocre fields like the one shaping up for next weekend's Preakness, which Medina Spirits, a thoroughly average horse, is likely to win by default, unless Concert Tour wakes up again.
Civres
 
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