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 Post subject: Remember, an industry wide problem
PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:32 pm 
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this does not bode well.

Trying to get the link from drf.com about Hollywood cancelling Wednesday due to lack of entries. Either way, this goes to quality and health of horses, not about jurisdictions.

http://drf.com/news/article/113222.html

Hollywood cancels Wednesday card
By Steve Andersen
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park has canceled racing on Wednesday because of insufficient entries.

Racing is scheduled to resume on Thursday, with an eight-race program.

The announcement of Wednesday's cancellation was made on Sunday afternoon. Track officials had hoped to draw programs for Wednesday and Thursday on Sunday, but were unable to attract sufficient horses for both days.

Some races that had been filled for Wednesday will be reintroduced over the weekend, according to racing secretary Martin Panza.

The cancellation of Wednesday's program is the first program lost at the spring-summer meeting after track officials took measures before the start of the meeting anticipating an overall shortage of runners.

There were only four days of racing scheduled for the first two weeks of the meeting, which began on April 21, followed by five-day racing weeks for three weeks beginning the week of May 5. The track had intended to run six days for the upcoming week, from Wednesday through Monday's Memorial Day holiday, but only five days will be run now.

Hollywood Park does not plan to race on the final three Thursdays of the current meeting, July 1, 8, and 15.

Through Saturday, the track has averaged 7.82 runners per race, compared to 7.59 runners per race during the same period at the 2009 spring-summer meeting. For the entire 2009 spring-summer meeting, there was an average 7.94 runners per race.

Last summer, Hollywood Park canceled the final nine Wednesdays of the meet as well as one Thursday program in April because of insufficient entries.

Golden Gate Fields in Northern California canceled its Wednesday card because of a lack of entries last Friday.

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 Post subject: Re: Remember, an industry wide problem
PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 10:04 pm 
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I'm waiting for New York to cancel a pay date for the civil servants, the non-profits, and the welfare breeders that have us BILLIONS in the hole for unearned handouts and giveaways.

I won't be running in the streets at my age but I am well-armed to set up a defensive position to repel rioters, looters, and various other scum that believe that "entitlements" are a birth right.

"Sight alignment, sight picture, get that fucker dead with one round. The Marine Corps has no money to blow on ammo like the Army does."

Seriously, It's not just about racing - it's about Americans from coast to coast and a nation that has run up unsustainable bills. Eventually the entire debt-ridden plastic collapses when the cash and credit are gone.

Our country, our United States, is getting near to Greece, a place where workers could retire with a pension of more than they made as producers - a whole lot like New York is now with the unions. When everything collapsed the Greeks went nuts lately and socialist Europe got into a fuss. Go look at California. Only the Chinese are propping up American debt to provide the handouts to "Yankee Entitlements". Not one gook is going to get shot when the zipperheads take over. OK, maybe there will be a few Marines left then to put up a brawl but the nation will be in the financial shitcan.

We made some stupid people in my day but nobody is dumber than those that espouse Obamaland and Big Government today.

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 Post subject: Re: Remember, an industry wide problem
PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:25 am 
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Where are all those who were quick to annoint the Messiah as the second coming...That prick brought the president of our most dependent neighbor to the Senate last week where he blasted the US and Arizona especially for our terrible record on civil rights..The leftisit Senate applauded the bastard and there stood Obama smiling...Well here is the deal in living color...Mexico is an addled drug induced coma of a dependent. They have the worst record on human rights in the entire hemisphere..Their starving citizens come here by the the truckload and their officials fearing for their life while the presidente cuts deals with the drug lords of his country live on US soil protected by Americans..Arizona 's governor should be a freaking hero..The law is taken from the Federal Immigration Law VERBATIM yet they are being villified by the left...LA cut ties?? They should cut the power and than Tinseltown will have nothing but Democratic losers from Watts to Tinseltown taking what they feel they are entitled to..Oh and we should not only ENFORCE the Arizona iniative..we should use it to rid ourselves of O and his aunt and the rest of the scum he brought with him.


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