Pletcher going to California

Originally Posted by Revolution

the misinformation and attacks on gulfstream border on incompetence. the track is headed in the right direction. the training facility at palm meadows is excellent. i don't see how anyone can judge a track based on one season where they were going through growing pains. remember the kentucky derby winner, the preakness winner, and the belmont winner were all based out of gulfstream.

Misinformation?
You say its headed in the right direction?
I have a few questions for you then.
1) Are the purses there not embarassingly small given the type of horses who winter there(like the ones YOU cited) and the fact that there is a huge horse population to draw from?
2) Are the weekday cards not an absolute disgrace containing nothing but cheap claimers and maiden claimers(as cited by trainers last year including Frankel when they went to management to complain about it)?
3) Was the refurbishment of Gulfstream Park not incredibly stupid and undertaken with no foresight as the mile and an eigth dirt races give an unfair advantage to the inside pp's causing trainers to scratch horses out of these races when drawing the outside?
Was it not also incredibly stupid to refurbish the oval leaving horseman without the possibility of running mile and a sixteenth two turn dirt races, something that Zito, Pletcher, etc complained about citing how vital they are for three year olds starting their tri crown campaigns who are not ready to go a mile and an eighth of the layoff yet need two turn seasoning?

Now geniuses, if one of you wants to debate me and tell me which one of these FACTS, not opinions, that you disagree with please feel free.
Otherwise stick to what it is that you know(perhaps needlepoint?), because you sure don't know much about how many people feel about the "new Gulfstream Park".