Proposed Venue for December 28

JolyB · #1 12-23-2019, 10:56 AM

I wanted to post this today since I probably won't be around the forum for the next couple of days.

I think that the best venue for our next contest should be Santa Anita. They have postponed the traditional Opening Day from December 26 until December 28, so that card will include all of the Opening Day stakes races. I believe that entries will be drawn this evening, so I won't list the actual races we will be playing until after Christmas, but wanted to alert you to the likely choice.

Most of all, I'd like to wish all of my friends here a very Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.

JB

cal828 · #2 12-23-2019, 11:34 AM

Good choice Joly. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you and your family and to all the participants in our little contest and their families. Only one more contest to go in 2019 and then we start in earnest on the Derby Trail. Should be a lot of fun.

JolyB · #3 12-26-2019, 08:33 AM

Let's go to Santa Anita on Saturday for their delayed opening day. We will be playing only Races 1 through 10, which will include 7 stakes races. I only hope that there are no scratches in Race 9, the Malibu, since there are only 5 runners entered to begin with.

Post time will be 11:00 AM Pacific, which translates to 2:00 PM Eastern or 1:00 PM Central. I'll set the threads up no later than Friday morning.

Saturday will also be the beginning of the Santa Anita Showvivor contest, one of the better free online handicapping contests. If you haven't competed in it before, it is worth a try - there are a number of different categories in which you can win cash prizes, and unlike other survivor type contests, no one really gets eliminated. If your show streak gets broken, you just start all over again. Here's a link to the contest site:
https://showvivor.santaanita.com/

DonGuido · #4 12-27-2019, 11:09 AM

Looks like bad weather on the west coast. Maybe it will pass by post time.

JolyB · #5 12-27-2019, 12:04 PM

I sure hope that it does. They have already postponed Opening Day once; it would be a real shame to have to do it again.

From what I can tell from the weather map, the recent storm has moved Easterly and the LA area should have sunny weather today and Saturday, with temps in the 60s. Here's hoping.