Examiner's Schwab assails Bay Meadows 'Development' Co.

[freddymo]

California has NO horses so why do you need so many tracks? I realize people will lose jobs and traditions will be silienced but it is because there isn't the racing stock to fill races at so many tracks. Too much capacity requires either selling more to fill it or cutting back. It really isn't very complicated, its just disheartening.

Bay Meadows wasn't making money because it's product was horrible. The BS that subsquently happened is not what racing needs to focus on and "we" are in no position to be pissed. IF the product/industry had its act together none of the rubble would be there.

Most likely the economy had a bunch to do with the development issues.. Hopefully those are short term.. I love racing not malls but I certainly get that 5 horse fields on prime real estate isnt a good business model and so should you. Perhap if you took a stance that begged for fewer tracks and fewer dates racing could start to build a strong foundation.Then racing might have a chance to thrive. Instead you focus on rubble from a track that hadn't had a successful meet in years, save Art Sherman and Russell Baze's prospective.