How hot can it be?
 

For them to continue to race? I remember a couple years back Saratoga closed one day because it was too hot. Today has to be as same as it was that day, which was also a weekday. I wonder if this was a consideration for today?

Anyone know the standard that they use to determine if racing can go on?

It's only like 90 degrees.

I think on that day the heat index was like 109.

No racetrack could be hotter than Louisiana Downs.

It was brutal.

It isn't remotely as hot as it was that week.

You know it. I just drove to Starbucks to get some work done and my air conditioning in the car could barely keep up.

Its hotter than Hades down here. Its amazing what horses can endure, especially @ LAD where they run during the hottest part of the day.

Everytime I see your avatar I crack up laughing!

good to see other complain about the heat. we do it everyday during July and August here in Phoenix. But yes its a dry heat.

The problem here is you get the heat, the sun plus a massive dose of humidity. So not only do you bake, but you stick as well... it's just all around miserable.

That said, while others are digging out of the snow, I'm teeing up a golf ball.

it had to be the hottest day yet here. absolutely brutal.

i've been to phoenix in july and august-it may be a dry heat, but at that point, it's just too damned hot.

It can never be too hot, only too cold!

lol i'm the exact opposite. you can put more on, but you can only take so much off-then you start scaring the children...

This is why I don't have children. :eek: :D

lol i wasn't talking about my own. two are already gone, one left-school starts wednesday, and he's a senior..time to start the countdown!

Yes but you don't have to scrape heat off a windshield.

NT

true...i just prefer winter to summer-but living where i live, winter ain't much.

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