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Originally Posted by Danzig
i thought it was the fine sand that they were using, that it was clogging the drain holes....
at any rate, whoever is responsible should be fired. santa anita will be a mess all racing season.
maybe the bc should seriously rethink the decision NOW to have the bc there this year. october would be a bad time to realize there's a problem that hasn't been resolved.
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They are definitely going to put in a new track at Santa Anita. This will be done well before the BC so you don't have to worry about that. They may wait until this meet ends in April to begin putting a new surface in, but I think there is also a chance that they made decide to move the meet to Hollywood and start work on the new surface right now. If they started right now, they would probably be done by mid to late February. That would be the best idea. That wouldn't be so bad to race at Hollywood for the next 6-7 weeks and then go back to Santa Anita in mid to late February for the last two months of the meet.
If they try to keep running at Santa Anita right now, who knows how many days they will miss. They will have to cancel the races every time it rains. They may miss 10-20 days.
By the way, even if this surface did drain properly, I still don't like the surface. The track is way too fast. I have been hearing about alot of horses getting sore shins there. It's because the track is way too hard.