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01-09-2008, 07:10 PM
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I think Santa Anita tried to make the horseman happy after seeing what happened at Del Mar and I admire them for that.
I just don't think they should go to court and fight for a dirt track. I'm starting to like the syntheic tracks. Say what you want, but it has put more horses in races. Golden Gate has a whole new life with its track. I love Santa Anita and don't want to see this turn into a pissing contest that no one wins. 
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01-09-2008, 07:35 PM
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Ya Golden Gate's surface has just been super
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01-09-2008, 07:56 PM
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I guess no one heard Rick Hammerle update the ATR audience tonight at 6:30.
A final decision will be reached tomorrow once SA management knows if there is enough topsoil and associated materials available to them for immediate delivery for the laying down of a dirt surface. If there is, they will install it while running turf cards. If there is not enough material available to them, they will soldier on with the CushionTrack as is.
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01-09-2008, 09:09 PM
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01-10-2008, 08:50 AM
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2 broke down, 9 vanned off, 5 walked off, 1 stopped work as saddle slipped. Quote:
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01-10-2008, 09:34 AM
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What good is having 9 horses in the gate if 1 a race doesnt finish? Ive never seen as many eased walked off running lines in my life. They seemingly have an "eased but walked off" a day. If horses do not handle the tracks, horses are breaking down over the tracks, and horses are coming back sore, what more do the propoly people need? What was the point to installing these tracks if their breakdown rate is the same as dirt, they are harder to take care of, and they arent all weather? They need to be torn out and good solid dirt tracks need to be installed.
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01-10-2008, 10:43 AM
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While these aren't included in the counts, I was looking at the charts for the Golden Gate races and saw a surprisingly high number of horses that had the comment "Stopped". They didn't break down and weren't eased or vanned off so they won't be included in the numbers. But that did jump out at me as unusual. I wonder how many of those horses stopped because they weren't comfortable or because they were injured in some kind of way but not serious enough to have to be eased or to have the van come out.
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