Ten races at Woodbine, but only one real race (and that barely -- 6f!)

I'm all for breaking the monotony of a typical day at the races, but I can't say that running nine 5f races, as Woodbine did on Saturday, is the way to do it. It's more the way to get fans to say, "What is our sport coming to?" A google indicates that there is a method to this madness, and that it's not really to break the monotony, the way that an entire card of 2-year-old races is, for instance. On the paceadvantage forum, the posters are saying (courtesy of TVG?) that the 5f races are because it's early in the season. That's not going to cut it in my book.