Santa Anita gets its own fall meet
 

CHRB approves fall racing dates (9/28-11/6) at Santa Anita, (11/9-12/18) at Hollywood Park.

SA fall dates potentially ends Oak Tree meeting
 

Santa Anita race date decision could end Oak Tree's 41-year run
By Steve Andersen

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita Park was awarded the 2011 autumn racing dates historically operated by the Oak Tree Racing Association at a California Horse Racing Board meeting on Thursday, ending, at least temporarily, Oak Tree’s 41-year direct involvement in the management of a Southern California race meeting. In a widely predicted decision, the racing board voted to award racing dates from Sept. 28 to Nov. 6 to Pacific Racing Association, a subsidiary of Santa Anita’s parent company, MI Developments. Oak Tree had sought to operate a fall meeting at Hollywood Park, comparable to the 2010 schedule, but the board voted 6-0 to run the dates at Santa Anita.

Santa Anita requested to run its meeting through its PRA subsidiary, which also operates race meetings at Golden Gate Fields, another MI Developments track in California. At Thursday’s meeting, Santa Anita officials indicated that it will work with Oak Tree on a financial arrangement that would allow Oak Tree, a not-for-profit organization, to continue making contributions to various organizations affiliated with the sport despite not managing a race meeting. The proposed arrangement would include consideration that would allow Santa Anita to run the well-known Breeders’ Cup stakes preps typically run during the Oak Tree meeting.

Thoughts?

Only one thought can possibly be on the minds of anyone concerned with racing's future...










What will happen to the running of the Zenyatta?!?!?!

It's been renamed again in honor of Star Trek Voyager hotty 7 of 9.. To 19 of 20

Seriously no Oak Tree meet?

How about what happens if Santa Anita doesn't want to deal with Oak Tree?

Santa Anita has no interest in leasing to Oak Tree. This was all laid out and plain to see last summer. I'll hopefully get George Haines on tomorrow with Hammerle for comment.

Santa Anita is toast as far a BC host site goes.

Frank is an azzhole........ Oak Tree donates money and funds a large portion of backside programs including the medical and dental trailer on the backside for the workers. Without Oak Tree these programs will not have the funds to keep operating.........Frank sucks plain and simple, he no more cares about the backside than the man on the moon. The conditions on the backside are just unreal. The people who live there still live in rat infested rooms and bathrooms from the 1940's, the barns are so old and low that it is unsafe to ride a horse under the shedrow. The barns look like crap unless a trainer pays someone to paint it and foux fix it. Franks sucks donkey ballzzzzzzzzzzz. It would'nt be so bad if he choked on his own Austrian tongue.

How were conditions on the backside prior to Stronach's purchase of the track?

The same but somehow he seemed to fix the track apron for the fans and built Front Runner lounge to serve the public and has said more than once he would fix up the backside.
Oak Tree at least puts forth an effort to make lives of backside workers better, what has he done??????
Think about S.A. as being the great race place and then come take a tour of the barn area and I double dog dare you to go for a pee in one the bathrooms on the backside, I bet your pecker wouldnt leave your pants.

And what should happen if the track conks out in August?