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Santa Anita cancels racing indefinitely after 21 horse deaths in 10 weeks (too much rain?)
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Posted on 03/06/2019 4:03:17 PM PST by Libloather
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Santa Anita received 11-1/2 inches of rain and had unusually cold temperatures in February, but it's unclear whether track conditions played a role in any of the fatalities.
Bad conditions. Apparently, global warming is a real beotch.
To: Libloather
One of America's best racetracks.
BTW, the Marx Brothers movie A Day at the Races was filmed there.
"Get-a you ice cream. Get-a you tutsi-frutsi ice-a cream."
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:05:41 PM PST
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: Libloather
Experts have been looking at the racing surface for irregularities. A test last week found no issues.
Fox61 Source
To: TBP
Hopefully this wont start talk of bringing polytrack back.
To: Libloather
A very Sherlockian mystery. Did all the horses die from stumbles on the muddy track? And, if so, at the same place? In any case, Id suggest that the track owners have the soil for the entire course examined to a depth of six inches (or however deep a horses hoof could go on a muddy track) and see if anything unusual turns up.
Maybe theyre striking a substrate that is the foundation for the covering dirt. Maybe erosion from the rains and years of use have eroded the courses soil and it needs to be replaced?
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:15:29 PM PST
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BradyLS
(ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Libloather; GraceG; Zionist Conspirator
Too much rain.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:20:10 PM PST
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CtBigPat
(Qanon - Please be real...)
To: TBP
One of the FUNNIEST movies ever.
“Here’s your Florida call Mr. Whitmore” :)
But that sounds like a lot of horses. Sad.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:21:09 PM PST
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: Libloather
It’s hard to comment without knowing what is the average rate of “death” during a season.
I put “death” in quotes because I’m assuming they mean put down.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:22:18 PM PST
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ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Libloather
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:22:42 PM PST
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knarf
(I say things that are true. I have no proof, but they're true)
To: BradyLS
The article says that track had its soil peeled and replaced to a depth of 5. Radar revealed nothing unusual in the silt, sand, and clay on the course. The track had a layer of red-brown sand from a beach El Segundo applied in 2014 and that it was reported to have been screened for foreign objects and rocks. A track superintendent for the course that had retired a few years earlier is being called upon as a consultant to help investigate.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:24:26 PM PST
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BradyLS
(ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Libloather
One of America's best racetracks.
BTW, the Marx Brothers movie A Day at the Races was filmed there.
"Get-a you ice cream. Get-a you tutsi-frutsi ice-a cream."
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:25:40 PM PST
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TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: Libloather
Two Kentucky Derby prep races are supposed to be happening there soon — the San Felipe this Saturday and the Santa Anita Derby on April 6 (the same day as the Blue Grass at Keeneland and the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. I’ve been to all three of those parks.)
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:28:20 PM PST
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TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: ifinnegan
Ten last year, eight the year before, and 14 the year before that , all in the first 2 months of the season.
Yes, the horses are put down, but they are just as dead.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:28:45 PM PST
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Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: ifinnegan
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:29:23 PM PST
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Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: Libloather
The Stronach Group also owns Pimlico (the site of the Preakness) and Laurel Park.
One of them was a Canadian MP.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:31:12 PM PST
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TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: Libloather
I’ve mostly won there LOL and I have a Filipino bud who gave me some really good tips. Heck, I win there more than Pechanga and San Manuel.
And to add, TODAY IS RAINING HARD in L.A. and will continue tomorrow..I think I went back to Vancouver with all this rain.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:32:51 PM PST
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max americana
(Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
To: BradyLS
" Did all the horses die from stumbles on the muddy track?
This is just a guess but i'd say the track has a layer of mud on top of hard pan. The horses when running, are sliding through the mud, then striking the compacted dirt and slipping just enough to throw the running horse off it's stride and it tumbles. Resulting in a break.
The track needs a good deep plow to break and churn the hard pan and mud together. Then, lightly compact the mixed soil and do whatever horse tracks do for race day.
Add sand, more top soil etc.
Why the managers of the track haven't done this may be because they never experience the long drought followed by a hard rain that didn't soak the soil thoroughly. A tragic effect of "Global Warming", no doubt.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:40:39 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: max americana
...gave me some really good tips.My FReepmail account is active, ya know.
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posted on
03/06/2019 4:42:10 PM PST
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Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: Libloather
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
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03/06/2019 4:44:17 PM PST
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BradyLS
(ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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