Santa Anita gets 2008 Breeders Cup

[SCUDSBROTHER]

We just ran the B.C. on an incredibly biased track,and most everybody still didn't seem to mind much.You pathetic losers just read the lady say her horses' legs hold up better on it,but you want them to run on the more dangerous surface(a surface that they can't seem to ever get fair on B.C. Day, anyways.) EITHER YOU GIVE A SHT ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THESE HORSES ,OR YA JUST DON'T.We actually have no choice out here,we get pathetic field sizes if we were to just keep running on dirt.That's just a fact.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Joey,I gotta better chance of going out for dollar day this Saturday than I do of going to B.C. 2008. I WENT TO THE 1ST ONE AT HOLLYWOOD PARK.I don't care much about it anymore.People get their horses ready for their one shot to win a B.C. race,and the track is so far out of whack that only half the field(front,back,outside,or inside) has a chance to win.That is pathetic.

[whodey17]

Turf horses dont necessarily run well on Poly. Look at Wait A While. Then you also have some horses who can run on dirt and Poly. Look at Street Sense and Quay. Then you could also use Hard Spun as an example as well. The reason why bettors like Keeneland is because of the payoffs that are happening over there. Also, I like the races. I dont care how fast they run the quarter in, and then they sprint home. I think that is more exciting than watching a horse go to the lead and stay there (so called merry-go-round race) like Sinister Minister. The only problem I have is that it will be less than a year since the track surface will be put down. Other than that, it will be a success.

[Danzig]

i do wonder one thing....

how does the graded stakes committee justify refusing grade one status to new races, due to not being run under the same conditions for two years (since they're new) but all graded races now on poly, rather than dirt, remain at their current status--but turf moved to dirt due to weather loses its status for that race?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by whodey17

Turf horses dont necessarily run well on Poly. Look at Wait A While.

Yes, and look at the horses who beat Wait A While.....

Do you realize that the top three finishers in the Commonwealth all exited one-mile races on the turf?

Wait A While, had far and away the best dirt form of anyone in her race last Saturday.

Hollywood Park's Cushion track surface isn't much better than the hideious polytrack at KEE. To me, that's not the same horse racing I grew up with and have been a fan of for all my life.

I can understand using the surface in the North-East, at cheaper tracks that are sensative to weather....from what I've seen so far, it doesn't belong anywhere else in my personal opinion.

But hey, the interests of the horseman/commerical breeders always trump what the fans and the betting public want.

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

But hey, the interests of the horseman/commerical breeders always trump what the fans and the betting public want.

Don't the interests of the horses matter at all. What you seem to be saying is that certain segments of "the betting public" are more concerned with their pocketbook and their subjective enjoyment of the races than the welfare of the horse - and the safety of the horses should be relegated below the "wants" of the bettors.