Santa Anita to Keep Present Surface

[sumitas]

Keeneland was just fine, thank you. If tracks want to keep that out dated dirt, then they suffer the consequences of the weather.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Keeneland was just fine, thank you. If tracks want to keep that out dated dirt, then they suffer the consequences of the weather.

KEENELAND DIDN'T GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT MONMOUTH GOT!!!

What do I need to do to drill this into your melon? They got like 7 inches of rain in a 24 hour period or something, ANY track would have issues with that...

[eagles725]

So pretty much no Curlin in the classic? Atta boy horse racing

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by eagles725

So pretty much no Curlin in the classic? Atta boy horse racing

No one is holding a gun to their head NOT to run. The funny thing is if BB wins the Belmont, Curlin has almost no chance to be horse of the year anyway.

[rgustafson]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

No one is holding a gun to their head NOT to run. The funny thing is if BB wins the Belmont, Curlin has almost no chance to be horse of the year anyway.

Maybe Jess Jackson could care less about another eclipse for HOY. Curlin already has a Breeders Cup Classic and a Dubai World Cup win. He may want to prove to people that Curlin is one of the greatest of all time. A victory in The Arc would just about cinch it.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by rgustafson

Maybe Jess Jackson could care less about another eclipse for HOY. Curlin already has a Breeders Cup Classic and a Dubai World Cup win. He may want to prove to people that Curlin is one of the greatest of all time. A victory in The Arc would just about cinch it.

Maybe so but he needs to win the Arc because winning the BC and Dubai WC hardly qualifies one as one of the all time greats. When I see him training on french soil i will believe he is going to run there. I suppose i would be looking for alternatives for the BC considering Assmussens strangely terrible record on synthetics.

[Honu]

Originally Posted by Scav

KEENELAND DIDN'T GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT MONMOUTH GOT!!!

What do I need to do to drill this into your melon? They got like 7 inches of rain in a 24 hour period or something, ANY track would have issues with that...

I was there in Jersey and pard they didnt get no 7 inches of rain in 24 hrs. , it was more just a steady moderate rain , from about mid day Thursday till Sat afternoon , if it had been a rain as hard as you proclaim the track would have been better because it would have rolled off but the way it just steadily lightly rained for 3 days it just got deeper and deeper and that track was crapola.

[Honu]

Santa Anita's track does not play like polytrack , well because it isnt Polytrack I guess that would be the reason . And as far as it draining it has drained just fine ever since the Aussie man fixed Cushion tracks inept failure .