Surprised there hasn't been more fallout here from the ridiculous outcome of the Malibu and the embarassing condition of Monday's SA strip. What was the point of even letting any off the pace runner into the gate at Santa Anita Monday? In ANY of the dirt races??

A promising 2 year old (Da Stoops) runs 7f in the exact same time as a Gr. I 7/8ths for elders two hours later? 1:21.3? Please...

Three weeks ago, Proud Tower and late runner Jack's Wild are seperated by a neck at the wire at 7.5f at HOL... Monday? 11 lengths. Earlier in November on a fairer SA surface, Thor's Echo and Ninety Fine are seperated by .75 length... Monday? 7+ lengths.

What a joke. I hate to take anything away from Sal Gonzalez on his first graded stake win, and it's a swell score for Davey Cohen, and this is certainly a NICE horse... BUT, let's call Monday what it was.. a skewed result.

Kudos to Shamoan, Unbridled Energy and Osidy for being the only horses to make ANY progress into the leaders. (You know it's a dragstrip when STALKERS can't even get into the fray for god sakes...)

And BTW, what in the world was the SA crowd doing betting Wilko to $3.80, from the 14 hole no less, after watching 4-5 dirt races basically wired to that point? No wonder there's giant P6 carryovers out there all the time...

You get all juiced up because Santa Anita is opening, and this is what you get.. Lucy moving the ball on Charlie Brown AGAIN.