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03-22-2007, 07:29 PM
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Registered Wacko
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Bay Meadows to Permanently Close
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03-22-2007, 07:49 PM
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Once again, polytrack is doing me no favors...
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03-22-2007, 07:59 PM
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I hope Russell Baze goes with it.....................
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03-22-2007, 08:08 PM
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Location: Palm Beach, Florida
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While I am personally in favor of Polytrack, I think they should have given them an extension in the installation deadline to save this historic track.
If the CHRB had been more reasonable there would have been another Poly surfaced track in another year or two instead of condos. Then again the BM management may have been looking for an excuse to sell to developers for big bucks.
In any case, this is sad no matter who is to blame and what surface one prefers.
Bob
Last edited by bobphilo; 03-22-2007 at 08:13 PM.
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03-22-2007, 10:42 PM
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Location: Albany, NY
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Where are those 20 horses going to go?
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03-22-2007, 10:53 PM
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Just another Facist
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Originally Posted by Ron
Where are those 20 horses going to go?
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03-22-2007, 11:19 PM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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Location: Moore, OK
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We need more tracks to close.
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03-22-2007, 11:24 PM
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Location: New York
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Start with the one in Ozone Park, and work your way up.
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03-22-2007, 11:27 PM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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Some tracks at all levels of racing should be closed, including the top levels.
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03-23-2007, 12:00 AM
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Allthough I like BM,the idea of having GG go poly,then having those horses return to BM dirt is hairaising. Have that problem right now with horses at SA who have raced at Hol poly. I wish they would all go poly or stay all dirt. It wrecks havoc with handicapping. I had been planning on making new pars for the circuit but there's no point in making any for GGF,SA or Dmr until they all go poly. I didn't really want to start making pars and TV's again but do see a big opportunity for nice scores when these new CA. poly races start showing up in the PP's with no TV's and innacurate SR's cause there will be no database on them.
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03-23-2007, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by cj
Some tracks at all levels of racing should be closed, including the top levels.
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Care to be specific?
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03-23-2007, 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by cj
We need more tracks to close.
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What is needed is fewer race dates, not fewer tracks. The closing of Bay Meadows is unlikely to reduce the number of races or race dates in California because there are tracks available to take over the BM dates. However, it will decrease the number of opportunities to take advantage of the fact that the odds on winning shippers are usually higher than the average win odds.
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03-23-2007, 12:27 AM
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Bay Meadows
I used to live in Redwood City and would take the train there. ONCE a year, for both Saturdays of the Bay Meadows Fair meeting I would get all four seats in box E-9 which was the only clubhouse box that was not blocked by people standing up in the grandstand. Lots of good memories there.
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03-23-2007, 01:32 AM
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The memories Zilly, will have to take a back seat to the ill informed.
There's little time for anyone familiar with the venue of Bay Meadows to reflect on its place in history as the smarmy take their misaligned position of its closing and the potentiality of other closings while reveling in the likes of Fonner - Fonner?
When one stops and pensively thinks of global warming, the questionable Saratoga meet may be next to thwart the encumberance thrown upon the talent in the consistantly oppresive seasonal humidity on par with that of Manila.
Last edited by bigmack; 03-23-2007 at 01:35 AM.
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03-23-2007, 01:44 AM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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Originally Posted by bigmack
The memories Zilly, will have to take a back seat to the ill informed.
There's little time for anyone familiar with the venue of Bay Meadows to reflect on its place in history as the smarmy take their misaligned position of its closing and the potentiality of other closings while reveling in the likes of Fonner - Fonner?
When one stops and pensively thinks of global warming, the questionable Saratoga meet may be next to thwart the encumberance thrown upon the talent in the consistantly oppresive seasonal humidity on par with that of Manila.
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I guess somewhere in there is something funny, but I'm not nearly smart enough to understand all that.
All I was saying is that there are too many racetracks running too many races. I personally don't care which ones can't survive. I just happen to think that fewer tracks will lead to less races being run, which will lead to fuller fields, which will lead to more betting, which will lead to higher purses, and so on.
History or not, Northern California racing sucks, and has for quite some time.
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