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Originally Posted by ScottJ
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).
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Los Al is useless. No turf course and tight turns, and horsemen don't support it anyway (after demanding it).
Best case scenario if Santa Anita closes is we end up with Del Mar as a vacation meet, a la Oaklawn. Worst case scenario is we shut down entirely.
