Hollywood cancels Wednesday after downpour erodes track

[Alan07]

Hollywood Park canceled its eight-race Wednesday program after a significant downpour in late morning led to erosion in two places on the backstretch.

The decision to cancel races was made at 1:34 p.m., a half-hour after the scheduled start to the program.

http://drf.com/news/oak-tree-hollywo...r-erodes-track

[pba1817]

All weather.. except rain.

[TitanSooner]

[pba1817]

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by pba1817

All weather.. except rain.

Pretty sad. California racing is on the way out.

[randallscott35]

To be fair, Belmont canceled 2 days last week b/c of weather. Yes, poly is garbage but cancellations are a fact of life.

[Kasept]

This was apparently torrential, wrath of god, cats-and-dogs-living-together kind of rain. Vic Stauffer said water was flowing from the backstretch on to the track in two spots.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Kasept

This was apparently torrential, wrath of god, cats-and-dogs-living-together kind of rain. Vic Stauffer said water was flowing from the backstretch on to the track in two spots.

I'm sure when it rains 5 times each year it seems really bad.

Originally Posted by Kasept

This was apparently torrential, wrath of god, cats-and-dogs-living-together kind of rain. Vic Stauffer said water was flowing from the backstretch on to the track in two spots.

In my ten years at HP I've never seen it rain anywhere close to as hard. It was a complete deluge for about 45 straight minutes. Here's proof of how bad it was. I have to walk about ten feet outside to a stairway to go from the announcers booth on the 7th floor to the Press Box on the 6th to get lunch. NO SOUP FOR GOOF

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by Kasept

This was apparently torrential, wrath of god, cats-and-dogs-living-together kind of rain. Vic Stauffer said water was flowing from the backstretch on to the track in two spots.

Sounds more like poor drainage control or they are not doing proper maintenance on the plant which I suspect is the case.

It didn't rain that hard to cancel the race card when they had the old dirt tracks in the 90's.

[chucklestheclown]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

To be fair, Belmont canceled 2 days last week b/c of weather. Yes, poly is garbage but cancellations are a fact of life.

Puhlease don't bring FACTS into this.

[TouchOfGrey]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

To be fair, Belmont canceled 2 days last week b/c of weather. Yes, poly is garbage but cancellations are a fact of life.

At least Belmont cancelled hours before the first post.

Originally Posted by TouchOfGrey

At least Belmont cancelled hours before the first post.