Main Track at Hollywood Opens Tomorrow

Hollypark opens with polytrack?
Damn--I am out of touch with the west.
I might just box 2-4-6 for the first week.
May fall into something!

[sumitas]

wow, i've been out of that loop too. i really hope it's a success all around.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by jackofhearts

Hollypark opens with polytrack?
Damn--I am out of touch with the west.
I might just box 2-4-6 for the first week.
May fall into something!

They don't actually start racing tomorrow. The main track will be open for training beginning tomorrow. The next Hollywood meet starts in early November.

[sumitas]

ahhh, no wonder equibase has no entries, lol.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

They don't actually start racing tomorrow. The main track will be open for training beginning tomorrow. The next Hollywood meet starts in early November.

You guys working someone over it just to get a peak at it?

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Scav

You guys working someone over it just to get a peak at it?

Practically all of our horses will be training on it full-time. Even during Santa Anita, most of our horses will be at Hollywood. I don't think any of our horses are working tomorrow. Our two main trainers are in Kentucky right now at the sale.

Our main trainer will have all of his horses at Hollywood full-time. I wish our other trainer would do the same thing but I don't think he will. It won't be an issue after Santa Anita puts in a new track but that won't happen until later next year.

[The Bid]

Im deeply saddened that California is laying down Polytrack. There really is no point to Poly in California, not to mention the racing is already subpar. They are grasping at straws, and its sad. The only tracks that can justify a false surface are winter tracks, IE Woodbine, Turfway, maybe the tracks in Ohio if the racing was ever worth a hoot. I think it is a black eye in the industry to have horses unsound enough to need a fake surface to run over. If a horse cant make it over a conventional dirt track, FELLAS, they just arent sound enough to run.

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by The Bid

Im deeply saddened that California is laying down Polytrack. There really is no point to Poly in California, not to mention the racing is already subpar. They are grasping at straws, and its sad. The only tracks that can justify a false surface are winter tracks, IE Woodbine, Turfway, maybe the tracks in Ohio if the racing was ever worth a hoot. I think it is a black eye in the industry to have horses unsound enough to need a fake surface to run over. If a horse cant make it over a conventional dirt track, FELLAS, they just arent sound enough to run.

Its Cushion Track not Polytrack. Be informed son, it your racing future.

[The Bid]

Whatever synthetic surface it is, its unfortunate that the game has regressed to the point where the animals cant handle a traditional dirt surface. I can understand a synthetic in a cold climate..... where it freezes, where dates are cancelled. I cannot understand why California wouldnt just tear up an unsafe track, and lay a new surface.