Santa Anita not racing Saturday?

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I can't comment on Golden Gate because I haven't heard anything. But I don't see any reason why they wouldn't put in another synthetic surface at Santa Anita. I know there have been problems with synthetic surfaces at some places but overall I think the pros outweigh the cons.

I think the track at Keeneland is a huge improvement over the old track. I think Hollywood's track is a huge improvement. Chuck says that Turfway is a huge improvement. I'm not crazy about Del Mar. I think it's much safer than the old surface but I think its way too slow and many horses don't seem to like it. In addition, it's very hard to handicap. I hope they can slightly tweak it for this year's meet and at least speed it up a little.

Now just because these new synthetic surfaces were a big improvement to the old tracks, that's not to say that a new, natural dirt surface wouldn't have been just as big of an improvement. I really don't know the answer to that.

hearing that quite a bit lately...and it's true.

hollywood showed the other cali tracks the right way to do it, hopefully the others can follow suit. i expect del mar will make a move in the right direction, they'll be better this year ( but then, how could it get worse??).