Santa Anita

[FrankD.]

http://live.drf.com/nuggets/47243-santa-anita-track-cancels-racing-indefinitely

[johnnym]

Very interested to see how Baffert handles this
No way can he win the Derby of one race in 7 months
Can he?

[FrankD.]

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/santa-anita-closed-san-felipe-battle-of-midway-13667291.php


https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/trainers-meeting-at-santa-anita-yields-few-concrete-answers/

[billk5300s]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/sep/23/racing-racetrack-surfaces-horse-deaths

There were similar issues in 2014.  Numbers show that polytrack is safer but for a number of reasons including track biases tracks were prefer to avoid it.

[TGJB]

I\'m hearing they will be closed for at least 3 weeks.

[johnnym]

Wow that’s huge

[breakage1]

Ritvo-LOL.  In some cases they could run on marshmallow................

Maybe they just saved the lives of the Baffert hopefuls?

[P-Dub]

TGJB Wrote:
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> I\'m hearing they will be closed for at least 3
> weeks.


With that info sounds like the SA Derby may not be run. What a PR nightmare.

Starting with the idiotic decision to replace Wrona, nothing has gone right this meet.

[JohnTChance]

The 21 horse deaths at Santa Anita have nothing to do with track condition! Only morons believe this. Including some horse trainers I know who barely graduated high school, with little or no science background. Cornell Pathology professor George Maylin proved it’s overnutrition and drug factors that cause breakdowns. Steroids effect bone. And we’re not even talkin’ all the rat poison crap found in Baffert’s sample of deaths a few years back. Ugh. So sad...

I’m thinking of the great jockey Victor Espinoza, who suffered a terrible injury at Del Mar this summer when a horse he was riding broke down. Wasn’t that horse trained by Peter Miller? Go review all Miller’s ThoroGraph sheets. If you don’t believe Miller’s vet is using \"something very strong\" beyond the norm, you’d be wrong. Miller is the fool who once told the DRF: “How can I train horses without steroids?” I mean… what an idiot. That’s the mentality of the industry.

[Boscar Obarra]

Looks like Mr Roger Stein might have been right .  He had a very low opinion of the way Calif tracks are run

 Can\'t tell what\'s behind this latest carnage, but this is about as ugly a look as I can remember anywhere

Makes some viral outbreak, which you know will recede, look like Xmas.

[Al Caught Up]

so ... was nobody using steroids etc. last year when horse fatalities were at an all-time low in California?

[Ace]

Speaking of Mr. Stein, does anyone know how Roger is doing?  I listened to him for many years right up until his retirement. I know his health seemed to be declining.

[Boscar Obarra]

Was wondering myself . Was tempted to reach out to the Hardoon kid.

 Yeah,   I knew him when he was just a kid.

[Strike]

TGJB Wrote:
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> I\'m hearing they will be closed for at least 3
> weeks.

Only a guess at this time on my part but with the Breeder\'s Cup looming in early November my guess is they will shut down the show for at least 3 weeks and probably many more. That may seem way off on the calendar but not so fast. If they decide they need to replace the main track surface -- it will take some time. Then, they will need to test it out before the BC. I am hearing the training track opens on Friday for jogs and gallops only. A big fat mess.

[Strike]

Strike Wrote:
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> TGJB Wrote:
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> -----
> > I\'m hearing they will be closed for at least 3
> > weeks.
>
> Only a guess at this time on my part but with the
> Breeder\'s Cup looming in early November my guess
> is they will shut down the show for at least 3
> weeks and probably many more. That may seem way
> off on the calendar but not so fast. If they
> decide they need to replace the main track surface
> -- it will take some time. Then, they will need to
> test it out before the BC. I am hearing the
> training track opens on Friday for jogs and
> gallops only. A big fat mess.


Ritvo (Stronach COO) says today they opened the training first (today) for galloping and jogging and they will monitor how that goes for a few days. They then plan to open the main track for galloping and jogging when Dennis Moore (track maintenance supervisor) gives his OK and monitor how that goes for a few days. Ritvo is hopeful they will be again open for racing before March 28.