Sanita Anita 2008

[jennatongtrento]

Want to get my room now...any suggestions within 10 miles of track , reasonable family hotels

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

Santa Anita Breeders Cup Advice is easy.

Stay home, save your travel and expense money up for the next year its not on a fraudulent surface and party twice as heartily when that event arrives.

Next year, Watch the Santa Anita B.C. at home on T.V., only bet the Turf races, and support none of the television sponsers. (I\'m probably not even betting the turf events unless theres a windfall opportunity.)

jennatongtrento Wrote:
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> Want to get my room now...any suggestions within
> 10 miles of track , reasonable family hotels

[Dana666]

Oh, please, with the possible exception of Churchill Downs, Santa Anita is the best big race venue in the country (Belmont\'s great, too, but the weather, again, is a complete crap-shoot, and their turf course gets real funky this time of year). Santa Anita\'s cushion track plays like an exceptional dirt course, and their turf (if they let it grow a bit and stay away from the pool table surface) is super. The weather will always be perfect. I only wish I stayed home this year!

I understand the problems with Poly-track, but with cushion, they are minor. Get real, synthetic surfaces are the wave of the future. If you\'ve ever owned a horse you\'d know why. Wait till you see how great Golden Gate will be with the Tapeta Track (if they can only find some horses). Tapeta is probably the best of all synthetic surfaces in my opinion & I wish more tracks went with that one.

[xichibanx]

I hope the BC goes through with their plan for a $1 million dollar BC Turf Sprint at SA that would be tremendous.

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

I\'m serious as a heart attack. With very rare exception I won\'t bet Poly and I don\'t think its the wave of the future. I believe it\'s new wave or punk.

As far as venues there are still top facilities to wager upon. Churchill, NYRA, Calder and most East coast tracks sans Gulfstream. Though you can wager on Gulfstream, its something like the B.C. at Santa Anita...you\'d have to be crazy to attend. Gotta love that Jumbotron.

I don\'t buy the safety theory, acquiescing that they do run on marshmellows, but what makes you think I\'ve never had an interest in a horse. I\'m just not a horse lover, if I was I\'d insist the game be banned.

On courage and champions and what horseracing is really about when not run on Polynonsense:

It was poetic justice to see Street Sense get clobbered by the horses that danced all the Triple Crown Dances with the Courage and Conviction of the horse and connections. Street Sense made a wonderful Derby for me, but to see him go out humiliated on two losses to gladiators of the first order was delicious.

Hail Curlin, long race Hard Spun







ana666 Wrote:
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> Oh, please, with the possible exception of
> Churchill Downs, Santa Anita is the best big race
> venue in the country (Belmont\'s great, too, but
> the weather, again, is a complete crap-shoot, and
> their turf course gets real funky this time of
> year). Santa Anita\'s cushion track plays like an
> exceptional dirt course, and their turf (if they
> let it grow a bit and stay away from the pool
> table surface) is super. The weather will always
> be perfect. I only wish I stayed home this year!
>
> I understand the problems with Poly-track, but
> with cushion, they are minor. Get real, synthetic
> surfaces are the wave of the future. If you\'ve
> ever owned a horse you\'d know why. Wait till you
> see how great Golden Gate will be with the Tapeta
> Track (if they can only find some horses). Tapeta
> is probably the best of all synthetic surfaces in
> my opinion & I wish more tracks went with that
> one.

[fkach]

This was one durable group of 3YOs.  As much as I\'d like to see them all run again, this may be the one time we are better off that they are retiring to stud early. We\'ll get one extra crop of their offspring. We need some sounder and tougher genes in circulation.