Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Your generalizations and assumptions are too much.

First, prove that Oaklawn is speed favoring. Second, as his retirement shows, in this day and age if you have a horse ready to run, you run. You never know when something will go wrong, so obviously the horse was doing well and he ran well. And, while connections do plan out a campaign, the plan changes a lot. It just seems baseless to make a claim that the trip to Oaklawn was a bad idea, considering your whole arguement is based on assumptions that YOU are making.

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Second, as his retirement shows, in this day and age if you have a horse ready to run, you run. You never know when something will go wrong, so obviously the horse was doing well and he ran well.

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Getting back to his retirement and to whoever posed the question about synthetics failing to do their "job" and protect from injuries, and I thank that JC98DegreeBoyBand for derailing this thread completely with that painfully fake "Who's Maggi Moss" crap, how long before we get a quote from The Dorf blaming Bejarano for the injury with that :57+ 5f breeze last week?

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

You would think the blame game will start soon enough. As we know, nothing is an accident, we need to blame someone for everything.

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Heatseeker - the first synthetic track made sire

Historic

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Question, Hasn't he been running on synthetic tracks now for the past year and aren't they supposed to protect horses from injuries like this? Or does the surface have nothing to do with it?