PVal close to California return?

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I heard this P.Val rumor on the Roger Stein show on Saturday.

And in other Stein show recap news ... if Del Mar doesn't rename the Pacific Classic the 'Frankel Classic' ... it's because they're anti-semetic.

Again, where are the jews in high places at Del Mar? ... Roger asks.

It makes more sense to call the Jim Murray Invitational the Bobby Frankel. It would be within the same series of turf races as the Charles Whittingham Invitational for one thing.

Also, I don't think they've run the Jim Murray every year since its inception, which kinda fits with the way Frankel campaigned his horses.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Good take Rollo.

It can get very weird when it comes to naming stakes races.

Ogyigan put me on the spot at the gym when he asked me if I know of any stakes race named after Easy Goer ... and I couldn't think of one. Our conclusion was kind of 'maybe they should just name the Gotham after him' .. that or a 5.5f turf sprint at Saratoga or something.

They named a stakes race at PID after local politican turned eventual national politician Tom Ridge. Kind of amusing to name a stakes race after him - when I guess his thing back in the day was to tell the local bible beaters that he led the fight to shut down horse racing in Erie.

Of course - that seems like a stroke of genius when the signature race of the meet is a filly and mare sprint race named after a Southern golf tournament .. and they cleverly award the winning connections of the horse race a green jacket.