Santa Anita Cushion track claims it's first victim

[SCUDSBROTHER]

I don't understand why so many people don't understand the situation in SOCAL. There is no way we had enough horses to fill cards out here(when we had dirt.)Now ,we do have horses that can come back to race(with much less time between races etc.) You want us to just train horses on it,and still race them on dirt.Well,that's stupid,because they run their hardest in the actual races.I don't have a problem with looking for the best possible synthetic,but don't tell us to go back to dirt(we have had all those short fields etc.. enough of that useless 5 horse chalk racing.) It's about reducing breakdowns,but it's also about having enough horses to have competitive racing.I would expect the track at Anita will be problematic during this meet.That's the way it was at HWD for the Fall Meet last year.The barns are almost full at both Hwd and Anita.We got horses to run. You can't comprehend that part.We are not going back to that short field match-racing bullshit.