Churchill under water
 

Huge storms rolled through here this morning and afternoon, Louisville got hit hard, Bloodhorse reports Churchill main track completely underwater. Chuck?

I hope it dries up in time for live racing in November:D

Borel's coming up the rail in a speedboat.

Horses can swim. New races can be written.

Holy christ that is serious.....

Speaking of serious, scavs you still owe me 50 bucks from the Derby 3 years ago? We need to make this happen. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes.

What are you talking about?

We had a side bet on the Derby that Street Sense won.

There are posts on here about it. I had Sedgefield and I think you had Zanjero or somebody else who finished behind....Its ok I haven't collected yet. Tim owes me dinner in Saratoga from 2005.

http://www.wienerschnitzel.com/pupst...DollarMenu.flv

PM me the post and you get paid because I don't recall it at all, and you should have said something about it and not waited 3 years.....

See, if that was synthetic surface all that water would have seeped through

The other race we bet scratched.

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/sho...ght=sedgefield

I'll mail it tomorrow

So its on record(and in the PM I sent you). I am going to hand that same 50 bucks to Steve at Toga this summer towards operating this site. You have my word, and Steve knows I will do this.

The whole back side of Churchill was under water. Some barns had horses standing in water up to their knees. They have started moving some horses (including ours) back to the training center. They have also canceled training for tomorrow. More rain is being called for this evening.

Hard to see how a track base can successfully survive that without some movement, cracks, holes, etc .... Butch has his work cut out for him, surely.

Not good news, considering all the electricity in that water from barn fans! At least there were stalls at the training center, but will that be useable tomorrow or next day, too?

That also means Einstein's training program is off prior to the Million. Wonder if she will ship him up early?

Kiddies, come see the pretty shades of color coming from the famous under-water flowers.

Horses are back at CDT. training training