Why don't some of the top yards run their best juveniles at York? I think I may have the answer
While horses for courses is a big factor everywhere, it's more important at York than anywhere else
My name is Tom Segal and I've never been to the races at York. There, I've said it and it feels good to have got it off my chest because it seems to be the most popular Flat racecourse in Britain and I feel bad about having never gone.
I have been to the track when no horses were there, however, and I get the feeling that, while racegoers love going to York, some trainers avoid running their inexperienced horses there if possible.
For example, between them John and Thady Gosden and Charlie Appleby have ten runners entered in the two juvenile maidens at Sandown over 7f this week but neither yard was represented in the Convivial Maiden at York over the same trip last week, even though that race is worth vastly more.
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