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Originally Posted by Honu
You really think the track is terrible? How about Del Mar and Arlington , have you even been out to see what the track is like now after they revamped it this summer . For the 5 days I was there working horses on it I thought it was a great improvement, it feels softer , yet not "cuppy" and loose it even seems to be a diffirent color which means to me that they have added something to the texture of the surface.
Im all for Polytrack and the surfaces if it makes it kinder on the horses. My biggest comcern with the polytrack and such is that because its kinder that trainers are going to think they can train harder over it, and believe me they will if they think they can, and I just dont get it .
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I don't know how SA compares to Del Mar or Arlington. I heard the track at Del Mar was really bad this year. I don't know about Arlington. I know there have been a lot of breakdowns there.
One of my trainers thought the track was so bad at Santa Anita just 4 weeks ago, that he sent all of our 2 year olds out to the farm and put them on the aqua-tread for 3 weeks until Hollywood Park re-opened. When Hollywood re-opened and only the training track was opn and not the main track, he moved all his horses to Hollywood. He thought the main track was so bad at Santa Anita that he preferred to train on the training track at Hollywood. He said that he could see a difference in a lot of the horses immediately. He said they travelled much better over the training track at Hollywood than the main track at Santa Anita.