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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Look, we're most likely not going to have racing in California in a few years, except maybe Del Mar and perhaps a fair meet or two. The economics don't work anymore.
But if we ARE to save racing in California, if it is saveable, we can only have one circuit. I would have preferred that this would have included northern California, and that we had done this when Hollywood Park closed, with a return to the pre-1960's single circuit where we move between the South and the North. But the horsemen threw a temper tantrum so we got a Los Al meet nobody wanted instead.
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If Santa Anita is lost to development, the SoCal "circuit" would be Los Alamitos and Del Mar so horsemen had better start thinking seriously about Doc Allred's role going forward and stop banking on the Stronach Group being the SoCal stalwart supporter of the game.
A single, standalone racetrack such as Del Mar will not survive based on current purse structure and the fact that the nearest tracks, without Los Al, would be 450 miles away (ironically, NoCal and the "on-the-mat", Turf Paradise).
