My Prediction for Santa Anita

[Honu]

Originally Posted by pgardn

I think its probably a little bit of the limestone that lies over the base. That means its in really bad shape if its little rocks like Rupert said. And I think The Bid is probably right that they moved too soon without proper testing.

And it is sad because I like watching the race replays from that track. And I liked betting the track with the full fields last summer/Fall. It was fun laying a bet a and coming back home and watching on the computer. Did not fair so well there though. Practice.

There is no longer a limestone base , it was taken out when the drainage system was installed , some of the rocks came with the sand , which is coarser than what had first been installed.
The little rocks that are coming up I do believe are coming from the macadam base that was scruffed up when they took the track up and pressure washed it.
I was out there yesterday with about 40 other people picking thru the track for rocks , I only found about 10 , 2 were good sized and sharp and the rest were from the macadam so they were fairly small, nonetheless still would hurt like a bugger to get hit with them.
The sand is most likely what is causing the sting , its pretty coarse and I imagine it feels about like winterized tracks do back east.