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When I first came into racing the late '70s, NYRA had just introduced the trifecta (they called it the "Big Triple" in those days) and offered it on only one race, the 9th. There was only one daily double (on the 1st and 2nd races) and three exactas (on the 3rd, 5th, and 7th races).
While I'm not necessarily making a "chicken or the egg" argument, racing was in much better shape in the late '70s than it is today - at least if one uses field sizes and crowd sizes as litmus tests.
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