I thought having to tear a track down to bare bones and the mass breakdowns at GG would be a little bit of a reason. Keeneland is better in which way? Because they dont have the speed bias, or because the injuries were way up significantly? As much as I respect Chuck's opinion, I would disagree completely with Turfway being a good surface.
Tweaking isnt ripping a track up, or adding a zillion gallons of wax and sneakers because you cant keep the kickback down, or its freezing, or balling up. Thats not tweaking, thats incompetance, and lack of forethought. Its amazing that this has happened considering the promises made prior to installation. Whether people want to believe it or not these tracks were sold as low upkeep, safe, all weather surfaces. Why now are people willing to accept the shortcomings?
These new surfaces are not only a great failure, they havent improved anything except initial handle, then they dip back to normal. Infact TWP took a huge decline, of course Ellison said its due to contracts which is understandable. However, even with that the handle is down a considerable amount.
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