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02-17-2011, 04:31 PM
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SA fall dates potentially ends Oak Tree meeting
Santa Anita race date decision could end Oak Tree's 41-year run
By Steve Andersen ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita Park was awarded the 2011 autumn racing dates historically operated by the Oak Tree Racing Association at a California Horse Racing Board meeting on Thursday, ending, at least temporarily, Oak Tree’s 41-year direct involvement in the management of a Southern California race meeting. In a widely predicted decision, the racing board voted to award racing dates from Sept. 28 to Nov. 6 to Pacific Racing Association, a subsidiary of Santa Anita’s parent company, MI Developments. Oak Tree had sought to operate a fall meeting at Hollywood Park, comparable to the 2010 schedule, but the board voted 6-0 to run the dates at Santa Anita. Santa Anita requested to run its meeting through its PRA subsidiary, which also operates race meetings at Golden Gate Fields, another MI Developments track in California. At Thursday’s meeting, Santa Anita officials indicated that it will work with Oak Tree on a financial arrangement that would allow Oak Tree, a not-for-profit organization, to continue making contributions to various organizations affiliated with the sport despite not managing a race meeting. The proposed arrangement would include consideration that would allow Santa Anita to run the well-known Breeders’ Cup stakes preps typically run during the Oak Tree meeting.
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02-17-2011, 05:20 PM
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02-17-2011, 05:22 PM
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What will happen to the running of the Zenyatta?!?!?!
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02-17-2011, 05:30 PM
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Seriously no Oak Tree meet?
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02-17-2011, 05:35 PM
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02-17-2011, 10:17 PM
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Frank is an azzhole........ Oak Tree donates money and funds a large portion of backside programs including the medical and dental trailer on the backside for the workers. Without Oak Tree these programs will not have the funds to keep operating.........Frank sucks plain and simple, he no more cares about the backside than the man on the moon. The conditions on the backside are just unreal. The people who live there still live in rat infested rooms and bathrooms from the 1940's, the barns are so old and low that it is unsafe to ride a horse under the shedrow. The barns look like crap unless a trainer pays someone to paint it and foux fix it. Franks sucks donkey ballzzzzzzzzzzz. It would'nt be so bad if he choked on his own Austrian tongue.
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02-17-2011, 11:26 PM
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Still trying to outsmart me, aren't you, mule-skinner? You want me to think that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is you really don't want me to go down there!
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02-17-2011, 11:46 PM
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Oak Tree at least puts forth an effort to make lives of backside workers better, what has he done?????? Think about S.A. as being the great race place and then come take a tour of the barn area and I double dog dare you to go for a pee in one the bathrooms on the backside, I bet your pecker wouldnt leave your pants.
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