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Originally Posted by 2Hot4TV
It is also an effort to get owners across the nation to ship and race in California. The purse money is already here and now the notion of we don't want to race on those hard tracks in California is a thing of the past. Dislike California all you want , but the fact is you are seeing the future of horse racing. Artificial racing surfaces are here.
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This stuff will have the opposite effect, Frankel can't get out of there quick enough and head to New York. Owners that pay all of that money for that horse flesh, only to watch the horse spin their wheels in it, will ship out of town and you'll probably see some of the bigger trainers like Baffert follow Frankel's path East. It may actually have a positive effect, California Racing is god awful, so if their best horses ship East, it'll make for a better overall racing product, which is fine with me. California is such a messed up state, I can't believe they actually passed a law to make this stuff mandatory, I would really trust the California politicians to know what's best for the racing industry, they seem to screw everything else up....