Santa Anita's Big Meet

[LARHAGE]

I have to disagree about the rain, we hardly ever get enough rain, even in the winter. I love this meet, the backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains covered in snow is spectacular! The racing is top notch and the new riders and stables is going to be exciting!

[SCUDSBROTHER]

It's a pretty place.Main track changes like a clock though.Yes,I have Dish Network,and it is great for horseracing .TVG,and HRTV are 1 station apart. I would think they will put the synthetic in over the Summer for Oaktree.They have to have it in by the end of 2007.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by LARHAGE

I have to disagree about the rain, we hardly ever get enough rain, even in the winter. I love this meet, the backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains covered in snow is spectacular! The racing is top notch and the new riders and stables is going to be exciting!

There's a ton of rain there compared to any other meet in Southern California. How often do we get a sloppy track or a wet/fast track at Hollywood, Del Mar, or Oak Tree? Almost never. But we get plenty of sloppy and wet/fast tracks at the SA Winter Meet.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

There's a ton of rain there compared to any other meet in Southern California. How often do we get a sloppy track or a wet/fast track at Hollywood, Del Mar, or Oak Tree? Almost never. But we get plenty of sloppy and wet/fast tracks at the SA Winter Meet.

Depends a whole lot on the year,but January/February can be very wet in SOCAL.Cliffhouses start slip sliddin' away.

[LARHAGE]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Depends a whole lot on the year,but January/February can be very wet in SOCAL.Cliffhouses start slip sliddin' away.

Come on Scuds you know it doesn't take much for those Malibu homes to start sliding, they shouldn't be there to begin with. I will agree that we get rain every winter, but excepting the El Nino patterns it's not anything like the inconvenience's of the rest of the country. I would say my riding is not severely interrupted in the winter, thats what I pretty much base it on. I actually think it's great when we get rain as I live in an area effected by fires, we're always short of what we need as far as rain goes.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Seems like an f'n monsoon last year hit during the 1st 2-3 weeks of the meet.I remember *****cat Doll runnin' huge in the slop in a 7f stakes.Seems like a 3 way photo in a 6f stakes with that Ted West Horse(ran 3rd in Dubai) involved.They were sliding all over the place in the stretch of that one.Maybe this year will be less wet (hope so.)