Because it keeps happening. There’s only 3 horses races a year the general public cares about. And the 3rd one only if the same horse wins the first 2. With so many owners and trainers taking the long view and skipping the Preakness this is becoming a serious problem for horse racing. Once the general public is down to caring about only 1 race a year pretty soon it will be zero.
Then the market will determine the future of horse racing. Kind of like it did with velodrome bike races.
My int was that when something occurs 60% of the time, you can’t quite claim it was thrown into disarray.
Side note, The Pimlico track where the Preakness is held is undergoing $250,000,000 in taxpayer funded renovations because all of us Marylanders care so deeply about horse racing.
Then, the Business Majors in government sold the rights a few weeks ago, but are still making taxpayers foot the bill.
Plus that, Pimlico is in a very bad area.