Weather Channel: 90% chance of rain at SA Sat.
 

This should prove interesting.

Supposedly they're putting a tarp on the Pro-Ride Friday night:

With a forecast for rain and five days of racing having been lost this meet because of drainage problems with the Santa Anita Pro-Ride main track, track officials are taking precautions. Late Friday, a plastic tarp is scheduled to be placed over the main track.
"If it happens, it will be the first time in history a racetrack will be covered," said the track's superintendent, Richard Tedesco.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/111210.html

NT

Sweet

Quite a tarp.

I cannot imagine they would take the G1 Kilroe off the turf. Why didn't they also card that race for Sunday?

They must have a back-up plan (could be the tarp they are talking about using).

Should be interesting with Hammerle on ATR tomorrow.

The water still has to go somewhere though.

Time for a retractable dome.

Best.

Idea.

Ever.

Frank is a part of the TARP program?

Time to borrow Sean's red katrina cup.

spread out frank and run on him............

I think it was done 5 or 6 years ago somewhere. Can't remember where; I do know I've seen posts about having indoor tracks for at least that long.

90% chance of rain with a 100% chance of cancelling...does it get any better than this?

So sad and now Franky has gone to Hollywood with his new surface agenda..

live about 30 miles from anita, as of 6:30 this morning the storm,if it continues the path its traveling will be more late saturday thru sunday.

I live locally and the news this morning is the storm will be moving more
towards the San Diego area, we will get a half inch maybe late morning, clearing up by afternoon and a beautiful Sunday.

The turf might well be other than "Firm", but I don't think this would cause a dirt track to get the point of "sloppy" or "muddy"

It's entirely possible Santa Anita gets NO Rain this weekend

They are saying stuff like "A few thunderstorms are going to be around(mainly in the afternoon, and evening.") I think it's a go. Will maybe be like it was on the 5th of FEB.

It's time for anyone with Derby aspirations to get the hell out of Cali and head east for reasonable prep....of course you could have said that anyway with the synthetic tracks.

What about Golden Gate? My Magna 5 score rests on it!

So are they loading horses on the Ark,or are they waiting to make the announcement?

As of yet I haven't received a drop, I'm about 45 minutes away from Arcadia, it's supposed to be much lighter showers than they thought so my guess is if it stays like this not only will the make it, but probably the turf will be okay as well.

Yeah, let's head east with the crappy snow storms and frozen tracks, no thanks, our synthetic horses didn't do too bad in last years Derby, far better than the Gulfstream or Aqueduct horses did

Ugh, now it's starting to rain!! :(

Rained pretty hard for 15m, and then cleared (in the hills a couple miles north of HWD PK.) Gunna be patchy. They still haven't had a drop at Anita.