They can’t use the Arboretum but I suspect they’ll bring in a lot of dirt and cover the parking areas that belong to Santa Anita, which to be fair, are very large. But yeah. A lot of turns, expensive to build, possibly unstable footing, and they’ll tear it all out after the single day.
Maybe parking costs will be discounted if you sign up for your car being a fence?
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I’ll feel bad if countries boycott the US. Total bummer if it’s only a few athletes. I want everyone to come and compete.
This is brilliant! Saves money building fences (oh, excuse me, “questions”), and gives spectators a break, until it comes time to get the car repaired.
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Can we also sit in our car as it’s jumped? Great viewing. And, maybe we can give a prize to best decor; like tailgating at polo matches.
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You just don’t want to set the jump up so some horses want to bank it. OOOPS!!!
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Is it me, or does nobody remember the rolls-royce jumps at Rolex, or the Mitsubishi trucks jump at Badminton? WE had a stock-car jump at colorado horse park years ago.
The think about jumping a car is its inability to hold a horse up if you bank, so it can ruin a horse’s confidence if the car gives way underneath.
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How many people are comfortable banking a jump these days? I think it was at Burghley this year where one jump got banked a few times and the rider came off.
It would be as if we turned into Moscow in 1980.
What a world.
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or repeat of the 1984 LA Olympics when the Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the Games
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Kids these days! We banked a prelim table schooling in March. Then Peanut said, “nope, I’ll jump it.”
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My first car was such an old beater–would be a great frangible.
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I’m sure my old Toyota Corona would have disintegrated into a pile of rust if a hoof struck it with any kind of force.
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Could be one of those obstacles that they either jump it, or they quit on it. No misses. It’s one or the other. If they go, they go all the way. If they go. 
I had a Corona DELUXE. 1972, $2600 out the door. I loved that car and no horse was getting near it.
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Wow. I always told everyone that the “car” piece in Monopoly was modeled after the Corona. I don’t know that, but it sure seemed plausible 
The rules now specifically forbid using vehicles as the jumpable part of a XC obstacle.
Spoilsport
It is still a fun conversation for giggles. I am picturing an El Camino. Maybe one with the hydraulic lift thing?
Top Ten in the world rankings, it gets raised 
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Even if there is not formal boycott by athletes, I suspect that the number of foreigners who might otherwise visit the US as spectators is going to be far lower than if the masked thugs snatching people off the streets weren’t a Thing.
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