Quote from: Zenyatta on June 26, 2016, 10:15:37 PM
He may exert a lot of influence, but he doesn't own the CHRB. The microclimates of Los AL and Del Mar are so much more favorable to summer racing.Bo Derek needs to tell him to stick it where the sun don't shine and assign dates after June 1st to Los Alamitos.
I understand the prestige factor weighs into this, but the welfare of the horse should be #1 priority.
Do you complain about Pleasanton as well because I would say the average temp there is at least as warm if nor warmer than Arcadia. I went to the P-Town fair a few years back, before a week of business in San Francisco, and the temperature went from 104 at the fair to 52 in that city by a body of water--
in the same day. Del Mar can't start any earlier than they already do because of the SD County Fair. Los Alamitos is always going to be limited because they don't have a turf course, although they did seem to pull off the impossible by creating a one-mile bullring.
Santa Anita is operating with an approximation of Hollywood Park's purse structure and right now, temporarily, has no turf course. If there is a race in the book for your horse at Del Mar you might as well wait and run for more money. In context, as Joe Harper's dollar doesn't go as far as it used to. If Ms.10 and her cohorts wanted to come up with a plan, they could have Team Stronach lease Santa Rosa during June--while leaving Santa Anita dark--since Golden Gate is being overused. He can combine the Golden Gate and Santa Anita resources and write races for both types of horses and use a nice, underused turf course. He can call it the More Wine, Less Whine Meet. The cheese is on me. The Oak Tree/P-Town meet can run for a month during the fall.
