How can Vic repeat what the stewards tell him to say with a straight face?

[rrbauer]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

That is totally untrue. At no point was the Saturday card in danger of being cancelled.

Right Vic. Two horses makes a race good to go in LA LA land. Must be really tough duty calling all those races with short fields. I guess the pay is the same regardless.

[InsideThePylons-MW]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

That's exactly what the stewards said.

Was it a unanimous vote or 2-1?

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Saratoga_Mike

CJ would never post an untruth - he's a moderator and there aren't many of those.

Try prunes. Might get that bug out.

[v j stauffer]

Originally Posted by InsideThePylons-MW

Was it a unanimous vote or 2-1?

Good question. Don't know.

[Saratoga_Mike]

Originally Posted by Tom

Try prunes. Might get that bug out.

Try not living on here 24/7.

[cj]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

That is totally untrue. At no point was the Saturday card in danger of being cancelled.

I was just repeating what the owner of this board posted. He has never lied to us in over what, 10 years now?

If he was mistaken, there was obviously big trouble filling the card. The PPs weren't out until very late. They were very slow, even by SoCal's "worst in the country" standards for getting PPs out to the public.

[cj]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

You're right he's royalty. Incorrect is a better word.

Bite me.

Now, before everyone gets in a huff that is a little inside joke I'm sure Vic gets. Now, Vic does work for Hollywood Park, so I wouldn't expect him to say anything negative and I'll take his denials with a grain of salt. He might even believe them.

One thing we do know is if he finds out he is wrong, we will not get a retraction.

[juanepstein]

[johnhannibalsmith]

Isn't that the guy that sang "Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Let You Down, Never Gonna Runaround and something something something..."?????

[keilan]

Originally Posted by InsideThePylons-MW

7th race Hol

4 makes a left hand turn 100 yds out of gate almost knocking down 1 and 3.

It's a 4 horse field so 5 wins the race, 3 runs 2nd, 4 is third and 1 a distant 4th.

It was 100% without a doubt obvious that 4 fouled 1 and 3 badly.

If you watch the replay closely, you can see 1 bobble to where she clipped heels, banged a leg, grabbed a quarter, etc.

Judges said 1 was fouled but because 1 was beaten badly (10 lengths?) there is no change.

So let me get this straight.........A horse can foul another horse at the start, possibly hurt the other horse, but so long as the fouled horse doesn't race good the rest of the way there will be no change?

If 1 would have pulled up due to the foul, would 4 have come down?


WTF is going on with CA racing?

Total incompetence!

Watch the head on and view the 5 horse (Tenacious Tina) get dangerously close to the 4 horse (Seedless) thus compromising her pathway causing Seedless to veer sharply towards the rail causing the jocks of the 1 and 2 horses to rein in suddenly.

As it turned out it was a three horse race, imo the stewards really had a difficult decision to make - take down the easy 2/5 wire to wire winner and post a new order of finish 3-4-1 would surely have caused all kinds of rants from the public or declare that there will be no change to the order of finish!!

The stewards imo took the path of least resistances and let the race stand. I've seen worse calls at most tracks over 30 years.

[ranchwest]

Originally Posted by keilan

Watch the head on and view the 5 horse (Tenacious Tina) get dangerously close to the 4 horse (Seedless) thus compromising her pathway causing Seedless to veer sharply towards the rail causing the jocks of the 1 and 2 horses to rein in suddenly.

As it turned out it was a three horse race, imo the stewards really had a difficult decision to make - take down the easy 2/5 wire to wire winner and post a new order of finish 3-4-1 would surely have caused all kinds of rants from the public or declare that there will be no change to the order of finish!!

The stewards imo took the path of least resistances and let the race stand. I've seen worse calls at most tracks over 30 years.

Wow, that's soothing.

[keilan]

What don't you understand? Did you watch the replay?

[ranchwest]

Originally Posted by keilan

What don't you understand? Did you watch the replay?

With all of the horrific calls I've seen, someone telling me that a call is not the worst just doesn't trip my trigger, regardless of what call is under discussion. What don't you understand about that?

[keilan]

Originally Posted by ranchwest

With all of the horrific calls I've seen, someone telling me that a call is not the worst just doesn't trip my trigger, regardless of what call is under discussion. What don't you understand about that?

Life isn't black or white, sometimes people watching the same race can't discern who was at fault or what predicated the incident. It might be helpful if you wanted to partake in the discussion if you at least watched the race, then follow with a comment.

[Cardus]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

That is totally untrue. At no point was the Saturday card in danger of being cancelled.

When I spoke to Privman yesterday, he told me the exact opposite.