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Originally Posted by JJP
Who rips it for no reason? There's plenty of reason to rip it; the first being that it produces boring, unwatchable races. I've got news for you Europeans; we Americans don't like watching your style of racing. Sure, Europe has the best grass horses nowadays, but watching a field of horses gallop/crawl for 8 furlongs only to start trying for the final 2 furlongs is a joke. I think Stephen Crist addressed the subject quite well in his Sunday editorial in the DRF.
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And if the tracks prepared the poly correctly, it could act just like dirt and make sure there is a true end to end gallop. They're obviously not doing that, though.
We prefer tactical racing, the jocks use their brains (well, most of them) rather than just say "well, lets have a pac duell with four other horses, get posted five ride round the bends and not have a chance of winning".
Just because you now have what once was just a european surface, it doesn't mean the races have to run like european races. As i said, if Arlington and the other tracks were to prepare it to ride like a dirt surface (but safer), which can be done...... the problem that you're having would be solved.