Gutierrez shifting tack to Woodbine

[ranger5830]

Originally Posted by postpicker

Actually he is applying to become a Canadian citizen so he has to be living and working in Canada. He has no visa issues with US. Question I have is, when did he tell Ivan Puhich about his plans.

That's basically what I meant, that if he is a permanent resident of Canada he isn't able to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely, and if he had a 6-month work visa and came here just before the Santa Anita meet on Dec. 26, that visa would be about to expire, in that case the move would make sense. Just speculation on my part, I have no idea what his legal status is.

[hockey2315]

Q. Mario, your plans for the future, are you going back to Canada and making your base going forward after this?

MARIO GUTIERREZ: Since I came to Santa Anita, my goal was break into California circuit racing. So after all of this is done, I'm going to go back and make California my base and see how it is.

THE MODERATOR: And I imagine Doug is just fine with that plan?

DOUG O'NEILL: Awesome.

From Thursday's press conference. . .