Hollywood cancels Wednesday after downpour erodes track

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

Weak comparison. Calder is a track that is specifically desinged for frequent sudden and hard rains. It's sand. Gonna have to do better than that.

All-Weather track wasn't?

[GPK]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Come on Vic, we all know that the almighty CHRB can control when it rains.

Nice Avytar

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

All-Weather track wasn't?

Zenny's mystery to dispatching Switch SOLVED....

The queens's retread:

[TitanSooner]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

All-Weather track wasn't?

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by Kasept

This was apparently torrential, wrath of god, cats-and-dogs-living-together kind of rain. Vic Stauffer said water was flowing from the backstretch on to the track in two spots.

Sounds more like poor drainage control or they are not doing proper maintenance on the plant which I suspect is the case.

It didn't rain that hard to cancel the race card when they had the old dirt tracks in the 90's.

Originally Posted by 2Hot4TV

Sounds more like poor drainage control or they are not doing proper maintenance on the plant which I suspect is the case.

It didn't rain that hard to cancel the race card when they had the old dirt tracks in the 90's.

That's a very fair thing to say. But. If what happened to cushion yesterday happened to a dirt track, especially at 70 mins to post, I think the dirt track card would also have been lost.

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

That's a very fair thing to say. But. If what happened to cushion yesterday happened to a dirt track, especially at 70 mins to post, I think the dirt track card would also have been lost.

The biggest story is how weird it is that it rained in California this early in the "rain season."

I was rained on up here in NorCal yesterday.

For those who have never spent much time in California, you can pretty much put it in the bank that it will NOT rain between late April and late October, except for some coastal mist and some Sierra storms.

I give credit for the rain to the former "Governor Moonbeam," who seems poised to become Governor of California again.

To his credit, he dated Linda Rondstadt when she was hot.

And don't forget, we have Bo Derek on our California Horse Racing Board of Directors.

[johnny pinwheel]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

Weak comparison. Calder is a track that is specifically desinged for frequent sudden and hard rains. It's sand. Gonna have to do better than that.

no he is right...when you sell it as all weather....it should mean all weather. Gee, i wonder why calder did not install it...it says all weather....lol. it rains there all the time...oh, sand works better...lol..... oh yeah, and running over garbage (used tire treads, must be better for everyone involved)...lol. its called the 10 million dollar F*ck job...lol