Santa Anita for Thursday (5/15), 104 degrees.

[Stillriledup]

I don't remember the last time a track cancelled racing due to excessive heat, but the forecast seems to be 104 for Thursday and 102 for Friday. Something to keep in mind if you're spending all day tonight and tomorrow handicapping SA.

[goatchaser]

There were many days they ran at the Old LA County Fair in Pomona when they ran in this type of heat were having here. My Little phone is showing me 102 tomorrow and 99 Friday 90 on Sat.

[breezing]

I don't remember the last time a track cancelled racing due to excessive heat, but the forecast seems to be 104 for Thursday and 102 for Friday. Something to keep in mind if you're spending all day tonight and tomorrow handicapping SA.

When is the wind supposed to die down? Those two combined with no humidity are giving me a migraine.

[Mineshaft]

whats the humidity there?

[breezing]

whats the humidity there?
4% right now where I am working per weather.com

[Dark Horse]

I don't remember the last time a track cancelled racing due to excessive heat, but the forecast seems to be 104 for Thursday and 102 for Friday. Something to keep in mind if you're spending all day tonight and tomorrow handicapping SA.

Thanks for the info.

I'll skip the card. No way of knowing how each horse responds to excessive heat.

Then again, any type of equalizer adds value to the underdogs.

[Mineshaft]

4% right now where I am working per weather.com





it cant be that hot must be a dry heat-try coming down where i live with the humidity 100% the whole summer

[Grits]

I don't remember the last time a track cancelled racing due to excessive heat, but the forecast seems to be 104 for Thursday and 102 for Friday. Something to keep in mind if you're spending all day tonight and tomorrow handicapping SA.

I guess you missed NYRA cancelling on summer days due to heat of 2011, 2012, etc. etc.

[BlueChip@DRF]

I'll be betting all horses sired by Unusual Heat. :cool:

[Stillriledup]

Thanks for the info.

I'll skip the card. No way of knowing how each horse responds to excessive heat.

Then again, any type of equalizer adds value to the underdogs.

Weather dot come reporting 102 and 98, i saw their site when i put this post up and they had 104 and 102.

Another factor is the track and how it plays...if they water it between races, its probably going to dry faster than it normally does, that's something else to consider i think.

[Stillriledup]

I guess you missed NYRA cancelling on summer days due to heat of 2011, 2012, etc. etc.

I kind of "remembered" some track cancelling due to heat, but i wasnt sure when and where. Thanks for the reminder.

[breezing]

it cant be that hot must be a dry heat-try coming down where i live with the humidity 100% the whole summer
I grew up in south Florida and have spent some time in indonesia, I will take a 95/95 day over 100+ with 4% humidity and santa ana winds any day. I feel the life being sucked out of me, feeling for the laborers this week.

[Grits]

I kind of "remembered" some track cancelling due to heat, but i wasnt sure when and where. Thanks for the reminder.

Always give credit to the tracks when they realize the horses are at risk and make decisions accordingly. Management gets slammed hard, often, as we know.

[Stillriledup]

Always give credit to the tracks when they realize the horses are at risk and make decisions accordingly. Management gets slammed hard, often, as we know.

I know i would never race a horse i owned in this heat, what about you?

[Grits]

Nope. No way.

[dannyhill]

I'll be betting all horses sired by Unusual Heat. :cool:
After the beat i just took @ Belmont this belly laugh was appreciated.:kiss:

[dannyhill]

104 heat with 4% humidity will feel like 95-97.

[Al Gobbi]

card cancelled.

[Stillriledup]

card cancelled.

Hmmm. ;)

[Saratoga_Mike]

I kind of "remembered" some track cancelling due to heat, but i wasnt sure when and where. Thanks for the reminder.

I think you even complained about it, but that could have been one of a million other things.

[Stillriledup]

I think you even complained about it, but that could have been one of a million other things.

Its possible i called them "soft". :D

[thespaah]

I know i would never race a horse i owned in this heat, what about you?
Not happening.
BTW...Just looked at readings at Bakersfield Temp 88 Humidity 5%...Dew point is 10*
LAX is 89* Humidity 9% Dew is 23*
It's DRY.....The air is crackling.

[anotherCAfan]

There is a reason why racing transitioned to Hollywood Park around this time (well, a few weeks earlier) every year. Too hot in Arcadia.

[Valuist]

SRU-

I know you will dabble in the baseball investing. We know that the LA area parks favor pitchers at night when the ocean breezes cool the temp. But when its hot, the ball flies out. Marlins put up 13 runs last night in Dodger Stadium.

Sorry for hijacking the thread.

[BlueShoe]

There is a reason why racing transitioned to Hollywood Park around this time (well, a few weeks earlier) every year. Too hot in Arcadia.
When SA got the extended dates after the close of HollyPark, a few of us did express concerns about hot weather. It would now seem to be we told you so. Temps expected to drop a bit Friday and even more on the weekend, so Thursday should be the only lost day.

[goatchaser]

There is a reason why racing transitioned to Hollywood Park around this time (well, a few weeks earlier) every year. Too hot in Arcadia.
Usually you would be right but the beaches are just a couple of degrees cooler through this wave of heat.

[levinmpa]

I think everyone needs to keep in mind the world we live in today. PETA and some media outlets have been haunting our game. If a horse goes down due to heat exhaustion, PETA will be all over it, playing their cruelty card. And with Social Media today, it turns into a nightmare for the industry. I too remember the days when they didn't cancel due to heat, but it was another world then. There have been lots of heat related cancellations the past few years on those hot, humid days in the east. We just have to live with it.

[johnhannibalsmith]

I know i would never race a horse i owned in this heat, what about you?

At SRU Downs, where you enter to run, you'd play hell getting a scratch card signed.

[Stillriledup]

At SRU Downs, where you enter to run, you'd play hell getting a scratch card signed.

You might, depends on how much i like you. :D