FAIRPLEX MAY STRETCH TRACK TO MILE : IMPROVEMENT PLANS INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW GRASS COURSE.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer In the David-and-Goliath battle between Fairplex Park and Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
Slingshot allows the delivery of real time market data across the Internet and private intranets quickly, cheaply and securely. and bulk up. Responding to Hollywood Park's bid for overlapping dates, Fairplex officials announced a plan to expand its main track from five-eighths of a mile to a full mile, and build a turf course. Fairplex president James Henwood told the California Horse Racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with Board on Thursday the construction could begin after the Sept. 12-30 Los Angeles County Fair The Los Angeles County Fair (also called simply the L.A. County Fair) is an annual event held in the Fairplex in Pomona, California, held every September. It is a carnival with rides, merchants, food vendors, cooking contests, and livestock. The 2007 L.A. season and be complete in time for the Sept. 11-29, 1997 meet. Henwood said it would cost as much as $10 million and Fairplex would seek ``governmental assistance.'' Henwood said the plan had been in the works for some time. But he admitted it became more urgent when the CHRB CHRB California Horse Racing Board CHRB Community Housing Resource Board (Montana) CHRB Commonwealth Health Research Board released in April a tentative '97 schedule with Hollywood Park open for Friday and Saturday racing on three weekends in September. Hollywood executives said those cards are needed to give horses preparing for the Nov. 8, 1997 Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982 by a consortium of North American racing organizations, led by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. at Hollywood a big, safe track and a turf course to race on between Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
The CHRB planned to require Hollywood to hold half the races on turf and offer no claiming races in order to avoid stepping on Fairplex. Still, the little track in Pomona felt threatened, remembering that Hollywood executives have suggested Fairplex is unnecessary. Thursday, the CHRB Dates Committee released another '97 schedule, with Hollywood and Fairplex overlapping on one three-day weekend, Sept. 19-21. CHRB commissioners seemed to like the Fairplex plan, which envisions the main track being extended to the north, south and east, away from the grandstand. ``It's nice to hear that someone wants to build a racetrack these days instead of a card club,'' said vice chairman Don Valpredo. The board gave Fairplex the go-ahead to arrange financing. Belt-tightening: Hollywood Park, facing wagering declines, announced $50,000 purse cuts for the July 7 Beverly Hills (now $250,000) and July 21 Vanity ($250,000), $25,000 cuts in the July 13 Hollywood Oaks ($175,000) and July 14 Bel Air ($100,000), and a further $25,000 cut in the July 4 American ($100,000). The Milady and the June 30 Affirmed already took $25,000 cuts. Cigar's plans: Cigar may resume workouts today and probably will compete next on the weekend of July 13-14 at Arlington International, the Chicago-area track that offered to create a $1 million race for him. Cigar, who has won 15 straight races, one short of Citation's streak, has missed three weeks of training because of a foot injury. He will skip the June 30 Hollywood Gold Cup The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. . Trainer Bill Mott said Cigar has a fiberglass patch over his cracked right front hoof hoof, horny epidermal casing at the end of the digits of an ungulate (hoofed) mammal. In the even-toed ungulates, such as swine, deer, and cattle, the hoof is cloven; in the odd-toed ungulates, such as the horse and the rhinoceros, it is solid. , but ``I'm getting a little more confident each day that everything will be all right.'' Five in Milady: Twice the Vice and jockey Chris McCarron go for their third straight Grade I victory together in the $175,000 Milady Handicap at Hollywood Park on Sunday. Their four opponents include Jewel Princess, who defeated Serena's Song in the Louisville Breeders' Cup Handicap The Louisville Breeders' Cup Handicap is a race for Thoroughbred horses run at Churchill Downs each year. The race is open to filles and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. at Churchill Downs, and Borodislew, who upset Jewel Princess in the Hawthorne at Hollywood. McCarron sticks with the favorite, leaving Jewel Princess to Corey Nakatani, who leaves Borodislew to Eddie Delahoussaye. Twice the Vice, who won the Santa Margarita at Santa Anita and the Apple Blossom on a sloppy track at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas, and Jewel Princess will carry a race-high 120 pounds each. Borodislew was assigned 119, Urbane 117, Top Rung 114. They've all got to make sure Urbane and Alex Solis don't get an easy lead in the 1 1/16-mile race. Today: Future Quest, who was California's leading 2-year-old when he fractured a knee last fall, returns in the $60,000 Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. del Rey Handicap. |
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