Lava Man... The Last Big California Horse

SentToStud · #1 08-21-2006, 08:23 AM

Enjoy him while you can. Notwithstanding whether or not he wins HOY, I figure this is the last horse of any consequence that California racing will produce.

Between a lack of horses overall, the inability to fill n1x races going 2-turns -- a basic staple of quality racing, a collective head-up-their a ss steward mindset, the soon-to-be demise of Hollywood Park and finally the move to running races on plastic in peraps the worlds most perfect climate all adds up to the end of Cali racing as we once knew it.

Within two years, California will be known as a nice place to develop young horses and that will be it. You are going to see (actually continue to see, as it is already happening) a mass exodus of quality 3 year olds early in their sophomore years as well as a continued thinning of the older divisions.

Enjoy Lava Man as he is the last California-based horse that will ever have a shot to be Horse of the Year.

2Hot4TV · #2 08-21-2006, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by SentToStud

Enjoy him while you can. Notwithstanding whether or not he wins HOY, I figure this is the last horse of any consequence that California racing will produce.

Between a lack of horses overall, the inability to fill n1x races going 2-turns -- a basic staple of quality racing, a collective head-up-their a ss steward mindset, the soon-to-be demise of Hollywood Park and finally the move to running races on plastic in peraps the worlds most perfect climate all adds up to the end of Cali racing as we once knew it.

Within two years, California will be known as a nice place to develop young horses and that will be it. You are going to see (actually continue to see, as it is already happening) a mass exodus of quality 3 year olds early in their sophomore years as well as a continued thinning of the older divisions.

Enjoy Lava Man as he is the last California-based horse that will ever have a shot to be Horse of the Year.

California racing doesn't seem to have a bright future.

#3 08-22-2006, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by 2Hot4TV

California racing doesn't seem to have a bright future.

Oh no!
Where else will TVG be able to do a remote from ? --->

2Hot4TV · #4 08-22-2006, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Guy_Smiley

Oh no!
Where else will TVG be able to do a remote from ? --->

Virtual Reality will take over. Just on big cartoon.

SentToStud · #5 08-22-2006, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by 2Hot4TV

Virtual Reality will take over. Just on big cartoon.

Mark my words.

California racing will turn into a good place for turf horses and Cal-breds. Nothing else.

If they have the bad sense to run a Breeders Cup on that junk, it will be a joke. Every horse that's won a $50k stakes at Turfway will enter and probably run well.

2Hot4TV · #6 08-22-2006, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by SentToStud

Mark my words.

California racing will turn into a good place for turf horses and Cal-breds. Nothing else.

If they have the bad sense to run a Breeders Cup on that junk, it will be a joke. Every horse that's won a $50k stakes at Turfway will enter and probably run well.

Most things in California just doesn't roll over and die even though I would like to see Rap music go on life support. Horse racing is still taking a big hit from Casino Gaming, which is growing as fast as LasVegas.
Turf racing? Maybe at Santa Anita and the winter meet at Hollywood only because of the other tracks having bad weather. The rest of the world wants that soft bog like turf that you just wont find in California.