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Originally Posted by dilanesp
We aren't getting another turf course, so that's just not relevant here.
The "then what" is the reckoning that should have happened after Hollywood Park closed-- we end year round racing in Southern California.
In case you haven't noticed, Santa Anita has only raced three days a week the last three weeks. And this is April, when racing has traditionally done decently in Southern California. One of those weeks was Santa Anita Derby week, a big week!
I suspect the endgame is for horsemen to go up to Golden Gate during the time periods when there is no racing in Southern California. Or maybe they go to other tracks. Just like what happens at every other place where they don't have year round racing.
But as Nixon's economic advisor Herbert Stein used to say, "if it can't go on, it won't". Year round racing isn't viable, so that won't be the future.
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I notice everything and I know what happened behind the scenes. Los Alamitos was another short term dirty deal at the expense of the long term health of California Racing. The CTT and Del Mar were for Pomona and they were right.
