NYRA to no longer accept entries from horses who ran <14 days ago

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NYRA issuing reforms to address the recent string of fatalities at AQU..

Per Matt Hegarty on Twitter:

1) NYRA will maintain "poor performance" list, effective today, of horses that will need to work 4F in :53 seconds or list after a bad race. A "poor performance" will be any start in which a horse is beaten 25 lengths or more, NYRA said.

2) NYRA will reduce all weekday (Wed-Fri) race cards to 8 races per day, effective Jan. 22.

3) NYRA will raise the bottom level for claimers from $12,500 to $16,000, effective Jan. 22.

4) Effective Jan. 22, NYRA will no longer accept entries on horses that have started within the last 14 days.

The last one is obviously the most significant of the steps and will be hotly debated.