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Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann
This is the Rainy Season in California, you know. (The others are the Dry Season and the Fire Season. There are also a couple of other short incursions, like the June Gloom.) It is tropical moisture, coming off the ocean from the southwest and the high mountains around the basin keep it from getting over to Arizona, most of the time. I remember going to SA in the winter and seeing a muddy track, off the turf. The Rainy Season generally lasts from some time in November to sometime in February or March.
Of course, the drainage system they put in with the Cushion track a couple of years back is apparently so bad that any decent rain puts the surface under water. They are going to have to tear it up and start from scratch. Stronach should have stuck to breeding, at which he is good; his management of two of the best tracks in the country has fallen short in so many areas.
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I live in San Dimas which is 10 miles from Santa Anita and I to am in the foothills and I can tell you that the old dirt track ( even with Steve Woods working on it) listed as good to muudy today.
It hasn't rained that much! Christ we are still drive at 80 mph on the freeways.
By the way the rainy season in Southern California (without salting the clouds) is from Febuary 4th to febuary 5th most years.