"I can hear the naysayers saying how these types of events can cause problems at times, like on the Saturday at this year’s Phoenix Open, when tournament officials actually had to cut some fences down and eventually close the admission gates due to safety concerns from overcrowding. Overcrowding?!?! At the racetrack? Only in our wildest dreams!"

To read TROT Magazine Managing Editor Dan Fisher's latest column for "The View," click one of the following links: 

• Where's our Phoenix Open?
• Où est notre Phoenix Open?

(Standardbred Canada)