Well there are two ingredients to the kickback. 1) the solid kickback and 2) the dust that was kicked back. I agree that the "solid" kickback was there, but the dust was much much less. The solid kickback isnt that big of a deal because that just falls right off of the horse and jock. The dust is what was the major concern. I think it can be better, but I think it was much better than the spring meet.