Trainers Love the New Track at Hollywood
 

I haven't heard a single bad word about the new cushiontrack at Hollywood. Everybody absolutely loves it. They all think it's great to train on. However, there is no guarantee that they will love it once once they start racing over it. Horses may get over the surface fine when they're just galloping slowly over it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they will get a good grip of it when they are running their hardest in a race. I'm hopeful that all the horses will like it, but I realize that it's still too early to tell.

Anyway, the good news is that so far I haven't heard any complaints. As of right now, things couldn't look any better. Hopefully things will look just as good once they start racing over it.

I heard that some of the rubber is getting stuck in the horses shoes and needs to be sifted:confused:

Any new surface will have some adjustments that are necessary.

Sounds like a good thing. Anything that cuts down on injuries and deaths to the horses gets my approval.
I hope the run as well over it as they train on it.
We'll know soon enough.

The trainers say that training over it is incredible. When the horses come back from their gallops every day, they look great. You don't see any puffy ankles or anything like that. Not only that, but horses who normally travel really bad are moving fine over this track.

That's good to hear. Thanks for the info.

Yes thanks much for the first hand reports. It sounds real good and I hope the horses just love to run over it in the real deal.

WHen does Holywood start?

yeah,
im sure they are going to love it 20 years from now when everyone within 20 miles of HolyPark is wasting away due to various respiratory diseases.

totally ridiculous.

dirt was good eough for Man O War, but somehow a bunch of Swiss Yoedler horses requiere a special artificial surface.
total bs.

f*ck you socal racing commision and f*ck everyone who supports the implementation of that crap at North American racetracks.

and dont give me that line about the safety of the horses.
if anyone gave 2 sh*ts about the safety of the horses, we would be running exclusively on turf.
Im not advocating that b/c personally, i really dont care about the safety of the horses.
But they dont give a damn about the safety of the horses either.
its just a politically correct excuse they are giving the public so they can install this crap without be scrutinized.

f*ck the track of lakes and flowers or whatever they call themselves.
this is crap.
they took the one legitimate track in socal and ruined it.
Los Al better not install that crap or I am going to have nothing to play at night.

Repent

f*ck you go somewhere else.

I like horse racing.
I really dont feel one way or the other about horses themselves.

I'll give an example.
one of my favorite racehorses of all time was Barbaro.
everyone from the ESPN board knows I was on him from day 1 as a 2YO.
made a ton of money on him.

but the minute his racing career was over, I lost any and all intrest in him aside from his possible stud career.
the one and only thing that saddened me about his injury in the Preakness was the fact that I had a huge win bet on him and I obviously did not cash.


Repent

LOL...Repent is back. Good to see you bro.

Kev

Never take anything Repent says seriously. He just likes to get people riled up. He says things that are so absurd that there is no rhyme or reason to most of it. He had a beautiful quote just yesterday. He said that The Tin Man has no chance in the BC turf because the horse ran lousy in the BC Turf back in 2003 and he was a better horse back then. In 2003, he went into the race off a 7th place finish in the Arlington Million and a 6th place finish in the Jim Murray. This year the horse goes into the race off a win in the Arlington Million and a win in the American Handicap. The horse has made $2 million this year. In 2003, the horse made about $200,000. Yet Repent says the horse was better in 2003. LOL.

If you are looking for logic in his posts, you are out of luck.

hey what up Kev.


good to see you.

who is this DaHoss guy?
wanting to run up and feed a horse carrot is not an essential desire one must have to like and appreciate the sport of horse racing.
whatever..

hey Kev,
this is as good of place as any to tell you that you were completely right and I totally wrong about English Channel.
what a racehorse.
he is America's best turf horse.

Repent

Well....I am normally good for being right about one or two things a year.:D

He has turned into a very good racehorse...

I trust things are well for you?

WRONG

you are misquoting me dude.

I never mentioned the year 2003.

I said he had been better in the past and been beaten in the BC Turf.
anyone with any historical knowledge of US turf racing knows the he was in better form in 2002.
won the American Handicap and the Hirsch Memorial that year.
was allowed to set slow fractions in the BC Turf at Arlington and still could only manage a 4th place finish in a somewhat weak running of the race.

and now you think he is going to run with horses like Hurrican Run, Cacique and English Channel?

you are out of your mind.

if you are going to quote me, at least be accurate.


Repent

yeah,
things are good.
back in TX now.

working a lot but at least I closer to friends and family than I was before.
besides the Astros sucking, things are pretty good.


Repent

Good to hear. Glad to have you on board. Will talk again soon....bed time for me.

Not sure if you caught the QEII today, but GW looked awfully good