Worst card today / Holleywood Park
 

Today, Hollywood Park put on the worst card I have ever seen here in S. California, tomorrow is about the same.

Are the Trainers sending message?

The weather and the economy are sending a message.

Vic

I hope you are right on that one,

Lester

When will someone GET the message - start cutting days - duh.
I'll help them out - I refuse to play crappy race days - haven't played anything in California outside the BC in over a year - don't miss it a bit.
Ditto NYRA...don't need these "past their prime" tracks running on reputation instead of quality.

Bad weather report hurt Hollywood on Thursday. The previous night, rain was expected to start at noon, but they changed the forecast the next day, but people had already planned on not attending.

I dont' like the economy excuse, i think part of the reason is that there's no slots fueled purses. The barns would be overloaded with horses if the purses were packed with slot machine money.

The housing market, agriculture, international trade and tourism, the entertainment industry, auto dealers, furniture and building supply stores...etc...

All of these major industries and MANY more have suffered greatly in California and I believe very few of them have gone to cushion track. Just how So Cal’s handle has stayed this high is remarkable to me given all their internal issues.

There it is! :ThmbUp:

PLEASE will the powers that be out there listen to this man

Management embraces the concept of cutting days. In fact management would rather have no live racing and merchandise simulacasting to the public.

The horsemen put up resistance to less racing days and fewer purse opportunitiies.

I'm sure the horsemen love 5 horse fields.

It seems we get this every year toward the end of both Hollywood meetings. In the Spring/Summer, everyone wants to get down to Del Mar. Hollywood really needs to shorten this Fall meeting by at least a week, and go to a 4 day week after Thanksgiving. It was an excellent meeting up until the conclusion of the Fall Turf Festival. The problem is that with Santa Anita's winter meeting opening on the 26th, many owners and trainers just prefer to wait, and run for a larger purse.

All that is true. However, which group would be more adverse to running four days instead of five, management or horsemen?

the economy isn't going to stop tampa, they will be up in handle this upcoming meet, why don't you blame the guys that swindled the race tracks to put in the synthetic.

Isn't Gulfstream Tampa's competition? Gulfstream is a dirt track, so why does Tampa fill its card with another "dirt" track available on the same circuit?

Maybe the reason for Tampa's cards is about the purse structure and types of horse Tampa caters too and not the surface.

Race cards should be put on to draw the customers first, not themselves.


The following is from a current article by the Paulick Report :

http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/an...ave-ca-racing/

TBD was affected; just as so many businesses have been. One drive around this community the last couple years and the evidence is obvious.

DRF: http://www.drf.com/news/article/109475.html