Have all the trainers self-certed in the first at S.A -

inch of rain  and half the field withdraw - surprised there's not a few threads moaning about it as there would be if it was UK racing!

Happens every meeting in the States when there has been rain, whether it be on grass or dirt, some horses like humans do not perform in such conditions

it's moved on to the dirt track

it was switched off the turf to save it for later

How are they allowed to do that? Crazy.

duitched the top 3 in the market

happens alot

Not crazy at all, better to retain the race albeit with fewer runners, than to lose it completely

that winner was 5s earlier before they cottoned on, you could also run a 37% deduction that hadn't come off the betfair markets for ages, the joys of usa racing

So you'd be happy if you'd backed a horse that has only run on turf, only to find that the surface had been moved to dirt?!

If you back Stateside regularly you become use to such events and play accordingly, I would not have a bet myself until I had checked the weather and monitored the track conditions, it is a habit you get into when playing the US races daily

Fair enough. I only do the big meets really.

worth watching for if you are a pick 6 player or like your cross card bets, can sometimes get some morning line favs out with the washing if they switch from turf, can greatly reduce the people betting on the dirt bred horses and turns the betting on its head

I would be the almost complete opposite, rarely play the big meetings as it is very difficult to assess the form from track to track and even more difficult when you then throw in the European challengers as well.
In addition Santa Anita is not a track I play, you must remember the way US racing is staged, most punters play by track irrespective of the quality of the horses, rather than the Euro way of cherry picking races at different meetings.

If over here the going was firm, it rained an inch and they moved a race to the aw (e.g Lingfield Derby trial) this place would be drowning in mock indignation at the incompetence of British racing etc!

The UK weather tends to be somewhat more predictable than the vastly different conditions you can get in the US from one race to the next, hence the need to have contingency plans in place otherwise far too many meetings would be lost.

someone should have give frank spencer a sick note  pre race

kicking myself i didn’t lay him for a place
because you know hes gonna give horses up with pace a nice lead....