Main Track at Hollywood Opens Tomorrow

[Rupert Pupkin]

I am very excited about the main track opening tomorrow at Hollywood Park. Alot of our horses had been coming up with nagging injuries on the rock-hard tracks in Southern California. I am very optimistic that the new cushion track is going to make a huge difference in keeping the horses sound. I think we will be able to tell alot very quickly. I bet we will see a big difference immediately. I will let you know in the next 2-3 weeks if there is a difference but I think there will be. One of our trainers in Kentucky says that the horses do not come back with puffy ankles after galloping on the polytrack back there. He sees a big difference in his horses.

Hollypark opens with polytrack?
Damn--I am out of touch with the west.
I might just box 2-4-6 for the first week.
May fall into something!

[sumitas]

wow, i've been out of that loop too. i really hope it's a success all around.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by jackofhearts

Hollypark opens with polytrack?
Damn--I am out of touch with the west.
I might just box 2-4-6 for the first week.
May fall into something!

They don't actually start racing tomorrow. The main track will be open for training beginning tomorrow. The next Hollywood meet starts in early November.

[sumitas]

ahhh, no wonder equibase has no entries, lol.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

They don't actually start racing tomorrow. The main track will be open for training beginning tomorrow. The next Hollywood meet starts in early November.

You guys working someone over it just to get a peak at it?

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Scav

You guys working someone over it just to get a peak at it?

Practically all of our horses will be training on it full-time. Even during Santa Anita, most of our horses will be at Hollywood. I don't think any of our horses are working tomorrow. Our two main trainers are in Kentucky right now at the sale.

Our main trainer will have all of his horses at Hollywood full-time. I wish our other trainer would do the same thing but I don't think he will. It won't be an issue after Santa Anita puts in a new track but that won't happen until later next year.

[The Bid]

Im deeply saddened that California is laying down Polytrack. There really is no point to Poly in California, not to mention the racing is already subpar. They are grasping at straws, and its sad. The only tracks that can justify a false surface are winter tracks, IE Woodbine, Turfway, maybe the tracks in Ohio if the racing was ever worth a hoot. I think it is a black eye in the industry to have horses unsound enough to need a fake surface to run over. If a horse cant make it over a conventional dirt track, FELLAS, they just arent sound enough to run.

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I am very excited about the main track opening tomorrow at Hollywood Park. Alot of our horses had been coming up with nagging injuries on the rock-hard tracks in Southern California. I am very optimistic that the new cushion track is going to make a huge difference in keeping the horses sound. I think we will be able to tell alot very quickly. I bet we will see a big difference immediately. I will let you know in the next 2-3 weeks if there is a difference but I think there will be. One of our trainers in Kentucky says that the horses do not come back with puffy ankles after galloping on the polytrack back there. He sees a big difference in his horses.

You bet me to the punch on the opening of the track at Hollywood. There have been afew handicapers on this board that have said they will never play a cushion or polytrack, but I think a few adjustments to your handicaping and you back in the game.

[alysheba4]

i wagered woodbine this past weekend and couldnt get a sniff over that new track