Hollywood Park To Race in 2010

[Pathagan]

Very good news....

http://cbs2.com/local/Hollywood.Park.Gr ... 58012.html

Hollywood Park Granted 2010 Racing Dates

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) ―

There will be racing at Hollywood Park next year.

There had been questions about the track's future since the Inglewood City Council in July approved a $2 billion retail and residential development on the site where there has been racing since 1938.

The California Horse Racing Board set the annual spring-summer meeting for April 21 through July 18. The fall meeting runs Nov. 3 through Dec. 19. The decision came at the board's regular meeting in Coalinga, Calif.

[Hollywoodmike]

That's great news!!!!! A reprieve for at least one year. Hollywood Park is currently Inglewood's largest employer and revenue raiser.

[Classy]

That is wonderful news!!!!

[DegenerationX]

They took the dates but haven't committed to race all of them.

[JDinSD77]

That's great news!!!!! A reprieve for at least one year. Hollywood Park is currently Inglewood's largest employer and revenue raiser.

I agree that it is a good thing for that area to have HP stay open. I just worry that the Bay Area Land Management, or whatever the current owners are calling themselves, are really just sabatoging the whole racing game to try to put together their scam financing for their scam utopian village. They've done a great job with their own backyard project.

[ScrapingThePaint]

They took the dates but haven't committed to race all of them.

That's the way I understand it. The CHRB OK'd the dates, but there is no commitment to race on those days, and the Land Development Co. still has the option to give 6 months notice to close down HOL.

What really worries me is this feeling I have that the CHRB has absolutely no alternate plan in place in case HOL does discontinue racing and stabling in 2010.

[PeteMo]

[That's the way I understand it. The CHRB OK'd the dates, but there is no commitment to race on those days, and the Land Development Co. still has the option to give 6 months notice to close down HOL.

What really worries me is this feeling I have that the CHRB has absolutely no alternate plan in place in case HOL does discontinue racing and stabling in 2010.[/quote]


They have NOT said they would run those dates. Very carefully worded that they would race up until when they decide not to. IMO best thing would be to move on and not be held hostage by HP, sets a bad tone for entire sport in Southern California to put with this BS. One look at the worktab at Hollywood any day lately and you can see how shot the track is now. Heard only 550 horses on the backstretch at HP.... 3/4 Empty.

[Mauicowgirl]

[That's the way I understand it. The CHRB OK'd the dates, but there is no commitment to race on those days, and the Land Development Co. still has the option to give 6 months notice to close down HOL.

What really worries me is this feeling I have that the CHRB has absolutely no alternate plan in place in case HOL does discontinue racing and stabling in 2010.

They have NOT said they would run those dates. Very carefully worded that they would race up until when they decide not to. IMO best thing would be to move on and not be held hostage by HP, sets a bad tone for entire sport in Southern California to put with this BS. One look at the worktab at Hollywood any day lately and you can see how shot the track is now. Heard only 550 horses on the backstretch at HP.... 3/4 Empty.[/quote]

Because many have departed for KY, East Coast & Woodbine, no?

[Jocan16]

That's great news!!!!! A reprieve for at least one year. Hollywood Park is currently Inglewood's largest employer and revenue raiser.

I thought that was the LA Adventurer, across from Jack in the Box up the street?

I actually used to fly in to LAX and the LA Adventurer would pay your cab fare to get there. They also would drive me to and from the track. $44 a night for a 80's Miami Vice style "suite" complete with a Rolls Royce out front with flat tires. Classy. Bar + Heated Pool. I also fancied a weekend I spent there with a young lady backpacking from England.

I read that they were practicing indentured servitude on the foreign employees there. Anyone had the good fortune of staying at this Jewel of Inglewood?