Santa Anita gets 2008 Breeders Cup

whodey17 · #1 04-19-2007, 02:52 PM

Awesome. I like when it is out there. So I guess it will be held on a synthetic surface for the 1st time. Should be real interesting. I would assume we will get more of a European contingent than normal.

SniperSB23 · #2 04-19-2007, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by whodey17

Awesome. I like when it is out there.

Except for the minor detail that there will be no dirt races.

whodey17 · #3 04-19-2007, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Except for the minor detail that there will be no dirt races.

Yeah, I went back and edited my original post. Didnt hit me until a moment later. Should be interesting.

Honu · #4 04-19-2007, 02:56 PM

wooohoooo i cant wait , last time it was a S.A. we ran 7 and won 4 maybe in 2008 we can make it 5.

SniperSB23 · #5 04-19-2007, 02:57 PM

So the first year they add the BC Dirt Mile it is actually the BC Dirt Mile and 70 yards, now for the second year it will be the BC Synthetic Mile. Good planning.

SniperSB23 · #6 04-19-2007, 03:01 PM

If Vengeance of Rain sticks around next year the BC Classic is his for the taking.

The Indomitable DrugS · #7 04-19-2007, 03:09 PM

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And a two turn mile at that. Sweet.

The outside post is in absolute bitch in those two-turn, one-mile race at SA.

It's really a shame....because the Breeders Cup was always my single favorite sporting event...from both a sports fan standpoint, and most certainly from a bettors standpoint.

What a mess things have become.

whodey17 · #8 04-19-2007, 02:57 PM

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wooohoooo i cant wait , last time it was a S.A. we ran 7 and won 4 maybe in 2008 we can make it 5.

I hope you have as much luck. How does your man like the synthetic surface?

Kasept · #9 04-19-2007, 03:05 PM

Whoa.. This came up on the show yesterday and I suggested that SA was looking like a major candidate but didn't think it would happen so quick. Figure CD in '09 and back to BEL in '10..

Honu · #10 04-19-2007, 08:59 PM

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I hope you have as much luck. How does your man like the synthetic surface?

Richard is a big advocate of synthetic surfaces , in fact when the training track at Keeneland first opened we had some horses stabled there and he couldnt wait to get on it . The proof is in the pudding , I check legs everyday and I can tell you Cushion track is better for the horses.

PPerfectfan · #11 04-19-2007, 11:47 PM

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wooohoooo i cant wait , last time it was a S.A. we ran 7 and won 4 maybe in 2008 we can make it 5.

And I will be there with bells on. Might even bring ya some special cajun cocktails.

I done put in my reservations at the "Brown Hotel"!!

SCUDSBROTHER · #12 04-20-2007, 12:42 AM

We just ran the B.C. on an incredibly biased track,and most everybody still didn't seem to mind much.You pathetic losers just read the lady say her horses' legs hold up better on it,but you want them to run on the more dangerous surface(a surface that they can't seem to ever get fair on B.C. Day, anyways.) EITHER YOU GIVE A SHT ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THESE HORSES ,OR YA JUST DON'T.We actually have no choice out here,we get pathetic field sizes if we were to just keep running on dirt.That's just a fact.

The Indomitable DrugS · #13 04-19-2007, 03:01 PM

If that's true....Great....Breeders Cup over poly-track.

I wonder if there will be any good college football games on to watch that day?...in between the watered down turf races anyway.

Obviously now.....a 2008 Breeders Cup in Hong Kong looks like it would have been a spectacular idea!

Heck, if they move the thing from Santa Anita to Khe Sahn it would be an improvement.

GPK · #14 04-19-2007, 07:48 PM

Hugely dissapointing....imo.