Santa Anita gets 2008 Breeders Cup

[pmayjr]

I hope they have a special Breeder's Cup "Down-the-Hill" Million race. That would own!

[Hawk]

They have yet to install the surface in Arcadia let alone run a race and most in this thread begin whining now?

Artificial surfaces are now part of the game. You don't or won't play Del Mar, Keeneland, Arlington, Santa Anita, Woodbine, Turfway, Hollywood, Golden Gate and more?

Start boning up on the dogs. Thoroughbreds aren't for you anymore.

[JJP]

What a great show watching 10 jockeys strangle their mounts thru a 26 second opening quarter and a 51 second half. Maybe they should just make all the races 2 or 3 furlongs. At least it would look athletic.

[Hawk]

Originally Posted by JJP

What a great show watching 10 jockeys strangle their mounts thru a 26 second opening quarter and a 51 second half.

How do you get the audacity to know that SA with a new surface will illicit an early jock stranglehold?

[Bobby Fischer]

pedigree could become a factor depending on how the surface turns out.

Last year we had two turf horses in the BC Classic who didn't stand much of a chance. Both out of the sire Danehill. At Hollywood cushion-track, they would have run better races and wouldn't have been automatic tosses.

I don't like any Grade 1 race being run on polytrack. On the bright side the payoffs could be very nice.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer

pedigree could become a factor depending on how the surface turns out.

Last year we had two turf horses in the BC Classic who didn't stand much of a chance. Both out of the sire Danehill. At Hollywood cushion-track, they would have run better races and wouldn't have been automatic tosses.

I don't like any Grade 1 race being run on polytrack. On the bright side the payoffs could be very nice.

That's a good point. Every year, the Danehills are automatic tosses in the dirt races, and now they probably will have to be considered.

[Hawk]

Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer

I don't like any Grade 1 race being run on polytrack.

How have you been able to formulate this opinion?

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by Hawk

How have you been able to formulate this opinion?

I feel it is a different surface and a fair share of high class dirt horses may not perform as well on polytrack.
When we have a Grade 1 polytrack race that usually means that it was formerly a Grade 1 dirt race. Mainly I like the dirt races and as a fan/observer don't want to see them go .