[SCUDSBROTHER]

Don't understand why the dirt-only race fans are interested in this. How many times do you have to be told that it's a drainage problem, and not a track surface problem? How many people from Cali are complaining when AQU closes due to being a snow magnet? Lately, it's been a chalk fest at Anita. Spent $24 on the late p3 there yesterday(bull single/all/ 3rd,4th,5th favs .) Had a chance to get the $129 payoff in the last(for the Sadler newcomer,) but the chalk held me off. So, it's not like I was desperate to try beating the chalk again today. If I have a complaint about these surfaces, it's that they(for us) don't create that many carryovers. If SOCAL loses it's reputation as the p6 carryover king, then it's big trouble. I know that changing back to dirt will hurt our main track field size, but it will create more random-type results. Scuds plan (to save the very lucrative p6 king reputation) would be to have dirt with reduced racing dates. If you try to return to 5 day a week racing on dirt out here, you will see huge field size problems (much worse than the present shortages.) You need a more forgiving dirt track than the ones we had. Horses need to be able to race more often than they were racing on those old dirt tracks we had.