RUMOR: "SA at Del Mar"?

The Bid · #1 12-21-2007, 12:05 PM

The game would be a lot better off with a Governing body. Whether Bush would be the right guy, we could all vote. Hed certanly be better than Barak Hussein Obama.

Kasept · #2 12-21-2007, 12:19 PM

This gets stranger as it goes... Had a conversation just now which revealed the twist and origin of this rumor... Having the SA meet at Del Mar apparently was not a consideration. Del Mar though had offered to take up their Polytrack cushion and ship it to Santa Anita to be laid down there! If Santa Anita cannot get things straightened out, running races at Hollywood would indeed be a possibility.

Rick Hammerle and probably Ron Charles on 'At the Races' tonight (6pm) to deliver the latest on what can only be described as a very difficult situation right now...

The Bid · #3 12-21-2007, 12:23 PM

Steve

If that was infact true would Del Mar have wanted it back after the meet? They tried to loan their Polytrack to Santa Anita? Racing in California is now BYOS, bring your own synthetic. How far the game has come.

Kasept · #4 12-21-2007, 12:55 PM

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Steve

If that was infact true would Del Mar have wanted it back after the meet? They tried to loan their Polytrack to Santa Anita? Racing in California is now BYOS, bring your own synthetic. How far the game has come.

Is that the nuttiest thing you've ever heard or isn't it? I was dumbstruck. Can't you can hear a truck driver calling the Santa Anita switchboard? "Uh. hi.. I got the racetrack here in 14 trucks... Where do you want it?"

Riot · #5 12-21-2007, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Kasept

Is that the nuttiest thing you've ever heard or isn't it? I was dumbstruck. Can't you can hear a truck driver calling the Santa Anita switchboard? "Uh. hi.. I got the racetrack here in 14 trucks... Where do you want it?"

I thought it crazy, too, until I remembered that Santa Anita's problem was small sand in their cushion clogging their drainage ... did they not heavily test the draininge, like Keeneland did? with the first section of track laid? Sounds like a free new cushion from the manufacturer to me (I read the complaints SA had about the manufacturer not being immediately responsive to their problems with the installation)

Anyway, so I suppose if SA has the base, they can put another cushion down over it - maybe it's not so whacky a rumor?

ddthetide · #6 12-21-2007, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kasept

Is that the nuttiest thing you've ever heard or isn't it? I was dumbstruck. Can't you can hear a truck driver calling the Santa Anita switchboard? "Uh. hi.. I got the racetrack here in 14 trucks... Where do you want it?"

if it's that bad a shape how hard is it to just go back to dirt and be ready to run a week late??

BillW · #7 12-21-2007, 02:54 PM

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if it's that bad a shape how hard is it to just go back to dirt and be ready to run a week late??

It's not the surface, but the cushion underneath that has been clogged by sand that is too fine.

ddthetide · #8 12-21-2007, 03:00 PM

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It's not the surface, but the cushion underneath that has been clogged by sand that is too fine.

then there is no "quick" fix. sounds like take it all out and start over. stay at hollywood or go to delmar.