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Originally Posted by pick4
I'm as skeptical as anyone about the claim that synthetic's are much more safer than a well maintained dirt course.However I don't think it's a good idea to use this one isolated tragedy to argue the dismerits of synthetics.
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That's what my big problem is. Really no long term research has been done to prove that synthetic IS safer than dirt. But the Polly police is always trying to jam it down everyone's throat. All I know is that I saw a horse by himself with a 4 length lead and about 100 yards to go, breakdown horrificly (and it wasn't one of those 8000 claimers that ran last night either). If this would have been Belmont or Churchill, the Polypolice would in a posting frenzy. I don't want to turn this into another poly/dirt thread. So I have said my peace.