No Racing Today at Santa Anita Today

Originally Posted by Danzig

some questions arise...

why did CHRB mandate an across the board surface change at all tracks? did they do due diligence? what caused them to feel that all thracks in cali had serious issues, serious enough to warrant a wholesale change-other than bay meadows of course?

if santa anita wanted to duplicate the track at hollywood, why didn't they? they admitted they used finer sand, the supposed cause of all the drainage problems. why the change? how would finer sand help in higher temps? if an all weather track has weather related issues, is it still a better alternative then dirt?
is it the change to an AWT that helps horses, or just changing from an old, worn, compressed track to a newer surface, complete with a new base?

California wacko-enviromentalists made them change the composition of the track at Santa Anita because they felt there would be damaging effects to the surrounding enviroment from run-off on the original composition. As soon as they compromised the original composition of the synthetic materials they were asking for trouble. What a debacle.