For several years now, I've saved every column I've come across about synthetic surfaces. I've bought and read "Betting Synthetic Surfaces" by Finley. Plonk's article seems to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. I guess I'll have to chalk up all those seemingly weird results on plastic as just more of the ordinary, run-of-the-mill weird results that occasionally occur in horse racing. Then again, maybe I'll just skip betting the BC this year.
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