Just so I'm clear, are the individuals complaining in this thread anti-synthetic surface (all of them), or just anti-Polytrack (in the form that it has taken at Keeneland and started at Del Mar)? My sense is that has not been that much negative reaction about the manner in which races have been run at either Arlington or the Cushion Track at Hollywood.
Also, I'd like to raise another point. In another thread (on "Drug Free Racing"), DrugS contended that there is an over-emphasis on speed-oriented pedigrees in the breed today, and that speed biased tracks carried these otherwise inferior horses farther than they would otherwise be able to do so. If "artificial" racing surfaces tend to negate the built-in speed bias otherwise prevalent on most conventional dirt surfaces, won't that work to the benefit of the breed in the long run?
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