Santa Anita will replace its dirt training track with a synthetic surface as part of nearly $32 million in improvements.
Santa Anita Park will add another day of racing after the Bay Area's Golden Gate Fields closes later this year and the owner relocates horses to SoCal.Santa Anita will replace its dirt training track with a synthetic surface as part of nearly $32 million in improvements planned as the venerable racetrack absorbs an influx of horses, trainers and jockeys from Northern California's Golden Gate Fields after it closes later this year.
"We think this will be hugely beneficial not only for horses that will come down from the north, who a lot of them have only ever known training on Tapeta, but it will be hugely beneficial for Southern California and Santa Anita as a whole because of the inclement weather policies that really are tough out in California," Aidan Butler, chief operating officer of TSG's 1/ST Racing, said on a teleconference.
Butler acknowledged that history when he said, "Just historically in California, there hasn't been a lot of success with synthetic tracks as a whole." TSG will spend $2.5 million to build a new turf chute at Santa Anita, which it said will allow new races to be created at varying distances.
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