No Racing Today at Santa Anita Today
 

I just heard that they are not running today.

is this a good source? Maybe the track is just slow to communicate it out...

It was from one my trainers.

Cancelled per HRTV

Running only 5 1/2 Furlong races and having at least one match race would have been a disgrace.

What an unfortunate situation.

They just cancelled racing at SA--per the SA web site

I would have bet those races. The odds of picking the winner would significantly increase :)

Supposedly the CHRB is meeting Tuesday to discuss Hollywood as an option. They need to move ASAP and have Thurs card there.

Perhaps they can get SA back up and running for the last 2 months of the meet but its a complete disaster now and they may have made the situation worse this weekend trying to fix it.

The track looked terrible on HRTV, however Millie Ball and Stevens still differ to the bad weather. Why isnt the track being discussed? They brought up 2 times in the last 10 years when SO Cal cancelled racing, once in 05, and once back in the 90s.

BTW it is a disgrace. The track is a disgrace, the propaganda is a disgrace, and the lies are a disgrace. Why doesnt the CHRB step up and apologize to the trainers, owners, and fans. The CHRB will deflect to Cushion Track, but Cushion track was one of many options. This issue lies directly on Shapiro, and the CHRB

There is no fixing it unless they rip the base out they are so dumb its incredible

They cancelled a whole meet of turf racing at HOL a few years back. Guess they forgot about that. :rolleyes:

Bill, the turf isnt the issue.

I heard they were going to start taking races off the synthetic and running them on the grass. synthetic off, grass yielding

If they do end up moving to Hollywood Park, there will be no turf racing. There is no grass there right now. I guess this is the time of year where they work on the grass to get it ready for the Spring/Summer meet.

At least the turf horses can stay on the main cushion and have a fighting chance if they dont buzz down there in 107 for 3/4 with 12 claimers

Turf racing at Santa Anita and dirt racing at Hollywood? I have no idea if it is possible but I am guessing alot of trainers have horses/help at both tracks already

Hialeah had the best dirt track in the country too. Just the worst track owner.

Many trainers do have horses and help at both tracks but I still think it is highly unlikely that there will be racing at both tracks at once.

You would know better then I do, I was just throwing it out there. Hopefully they get the whole ordeal resolved ASAP for all people that are involved.

I believe last yr Monmouth's turf races were at Meadowlands as an all turf cards for a few days w/main track at Monmouth racing on seperate days

I guess that would be a possibility. They could race one day a week at Santa Anita and have only turf racing on that day. That would certainly be workable.

do you think that the CHRB will even realize that is an option?

Don't they share equipment? Are they going to ship everything back and forth every week?

Share equipment? like what? I doubt they share equipment, highly. They have as many horses stabled at Hollywood as at Santa Anita, it is only like 20 miles away I think

I am pretty sure there is only one tote board for the southern California tracks. Not sure what else may be shared.

I don't think so, all three are completely different, as far as I can remember.

Santa Anita has the numbers left to right
Hollywood has the numbers North to South
Del Mar is keeneland-esqe i think

Not sure on that. They are sharing some equipment at least:

http://www.chrb.ca.gov/press_release...ss_release.pdf

Hollywood Park President Rick Baedeker said an LED display board has been purchased that will move from meet to meet.

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Edit - Just found this but it is blocked at work so I can't get to it. Looks like the LED display board is the tote board.

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nat...randstand.aspx

Interesting, maybe it is the big screen or something, I don't know. It is a joke out there. You have tracks like Tampa Bay that continue their success but tracks like Gulfstream and Santa Anita that have no idea what is going on.

In No. Cal - There's been a reported 17 horses who either "broke down" were "vanned off" or "walked off" over a span of 13 days - In So. Cal, an entire weekend of racing at the great Santa Anita winter meet has been lossed.

It's just a shame Fairplex doesn't have a turf course I guess.

TID, GG reports they have had great results with the new Crapeta

Does anyone have info on the spill yesterday from GG?

Now that would be tight turns.

It will be interesting to see how this thing shakes out. In a month the people in SoCal could be complaining about a drought again. So we never know...

But!

Just say they get one of these storms... say... I don't know... around the last weekend in October next year. They better get the sh*t figured out quick, because the Breeders Cup is less than a year away. I wonder if the Breeeders Cup people are watching closely, and thinking of contingencies...

I live in Southern CA and it rarely rains in October. Even if it does rain, it won't be much. It will be a negligible amount. I predict whatever track they have installed will be fine during that time period.

Yes, I even read somewhere that this was a possible option.

Or info on the spill in the 7th yesterday......nasty nasty bounce of the jock.

Assuming the track is in good enough shape to run this Thursday, does anyone know if/how they'll reschedule the stakes races they lost last weekend?
I don't know how that's usually handled, or how it affects the condition book of the weeks ahead.

CHRB clears path for Hollywood to take on Santa Anita dates
 

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nat...ita-dates.aspx

Excerpt:
by Jeff Lowe

Following three days of cancellations because of drainage problems with the Cushion Track surface at Santa Anita Park, the California Horse Racing Board on Tuesday cleared a regulatory path that would allow live dates at the current winter/spring meet to move to Hollywood Park.

Meeting in a special session via teleconference, the board voted unanimously to amend Santa Anita's license to allow some or all of its dates to be conducted at Hollywood.

“What we are trying to do here today is simply to remove a regulatory impediment,” CHRB Chairman Richard Shapiro said. “It is not designed to dictate that racing should go to Hollywood Park—that is for the stakeholders to decide.”

Shapiro and Santa Anita President Ron Charles both indicated that Hollywood officials are willing to make the facility available for Santa Anita dates.

Also, the CHRB left the door open for possible waiver of requirement for a synthetic surface at SA -- i.e. allowing them to return to dirt. SA will be meeting with trainers and owners, and said they will make a decision in the next 48 hours. SA also has talked to DMR about stabling horses there for training only.

i just read an article (link at equidaily) that SA might rip up the cushion and reinstall dirt.
so, a temporary move to hollywood? exactly how long would it take to rip up cushion, and install dirt?

crazy, absolutely crazy situation....