Topic has come up repeatedly over the years, and I brought it up on the show with an NTRA-BC guy Derby Week.. Thoro-Graph's Jerry Brown is one proponent I know of for it, and I like the idea a lot. Executionally, "they" say it's a problem for a variety of reasons (TV was the key issue), but that would seem to be less of an issue than it was when NBC had the broadcasts. If you did add a day, the logical races to add are a dirt mile and turf sprint, and possibly a juvenile (turf) mile which would attract lots of Euros.
I find BC day far too intense with the races coming way too fast to adjust to the opportunities.. If you go back a few years the races were spaced better with maybe an additional 7-9 min. between each.. TV of course found that too long a delay, so now they come at you like Jai Alai games..
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