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Originally Posted by King Glorious
I hope some of you heard the Roger Stein Show this morning here in Southern California. It was great. He had Robert Shapiro of the CHRB on there and he absolutely grilled him. He told him that they need to convene an emergency session of the board to get the racing shifted over from Santa Anita to Hollywood. One classic exchange was when Shapiro said that Santa Anita hasn't come to the board with any kind of request to move over to Hollywood and Stein said something like "they didn't come to the board with a request to have to install this stuff either but yet you made them anyway." Shapiro also said the board didn't make the decision for each individual track as to which company they had to go with when then installed the tracks to which Stein reminded him that the board didn't give them much time to do much studying first.
Stein said that all three surfaces down here suck and said that in his talking with his fellow horsemen, he hears far different than what is printed in the papers.
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sorry i missed all that!!
it's a disgrace, the knee jerk reaction by the chrb to mandate a surface. a disgrace that the track and the installer didn't do the right thing, and a disgrace that they sit and fiddle while rome burns. ridiculous!
i think going to hollywood would be a great idea. do it NOW, don't waste time, don't try to salvage a season that is already ruined. shut the track, get it right right now.