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Originally Posted by disrespectnfool
oh poly,poly
saving the horses for sure
killing bettors more |
I"ll take the horses over the bettors any day.
The different historical dirt tracks (and turf tracks) have long had individual characteristics known by handicappers. Some known for being deep and tiring (and more predisposing to things like muscle pulls and strains, back pain, etc); some hard, concrete-like (more predisposing to bone injury/catastrophic breakdown, bruises). Some have always favored stalkers/closers, some are well-known front-end-winning speed highways. That's nothing new, and it's always been a part of handicapping.
So the extreme fuss over the various synthetic surfaces still surprises me. It's just another surface, guys. It's no more "chaotic" than the last two weeks of Saratoga were, to my eyes.