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Originally Posted by oracle80
Scuds I hear what you are saying, but its hard for people to wanna bet a place where a horse like St Stephen can be a graded winner on what passes for a dirt replacement.
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The Spring/Summer meet at HWD is gunna be a very popular meet.I think any place that puts this cushion track in is going to be very popular.The fact is that it is a very fair track.You see a horse like Saint Stephen take advantage of 2 guys acting stupid up front,but right away,you see(in the next race) Antongeorgi steal a race.I have been watching horses for almost 25 years,and this is the most fair surface I have seen.Sure,some horses are going to love/hate it,but once that gets established(and it will) this track will be much more capper friendly.I don't see the huge inside/outside...speed/anti-speed biases on a daily basis that I have seen for the last 25 years. It is difficult only because you have horses trying it or the 1st time(that is difficult to cap.)The number of 1st timers on this surface will slowly go down though.The most bias I have seen was the day Gomez won on GN. GRP. MEETING.That was a day when speed was in trouble.The day after that,they went a bit too far the other way.Since then,I think it has been very fair.Even when the times were very fast,horses could close if frontrunners ran together.The biggest problem in capping this surface is not that some horses hate it(not that many do.)The biggest problem is that some horses love it too much,and they blow the race for many cappers.