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Originally Posted by Kasept
Meanwhile, let's get back to the original source of this chaos: TSG's avarice for unattainable handle increases in the SoCal market which resulted in a communication/leadership vacuum via the replacing of Rick Hammerle and driving out of Dennis Moore.
In addition to the current fatality tally tripped by the impossibly difficult main track surface issue, there's going to be further breakdowns because horses are almost certainly harboring bone fissures from 3 months of training/racing on the hardened strip.
Moore has the track back to the deeper, slower version that allowed only 8 and 10 breakdowns the past 2 years, so what else has to be done to fix that problem? To his credit, Tim Ritvo has been trying to source nuclear imaging machinery which can provide early detection of horses that are developing vulnerabilities.
As we learned with the NY Task Force in 2012, all areas need to be on full alert to prevent as many horses from going wrong as possible. I can't imagine what happens with the next incident. The pressure/scrutiny that will accompany the resumption of racing is going to be incredible. It's obviously impossible to easily explain the intricacies of this business to the general public.. Tough enough to explain it to people who profess to be interested or involved.
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So TSG is actually doing something about the track BUT NOT going public with that because it will point finger at who is actually at fault here. They need to shut it down until December 26th by then hopefully they can get it all sorted out and the spotlight will have subsided and they may even get credit for taking this extra time to insure safety of the horses. But as usual GREED gets in the way and they are rolling the dice in an unwinnable situation. They basically are gambling that NO HORSES BREAKDOWN from now through Breeders Cup because the media will be waiting and they will not accept that the track has been fixed and horses are breaking down at a rate that has been the historic norm.