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Originally Posted by oracle80
Stud, I loved Joel's post after the Alciabades yesterday. Note all the polycrap cheerleaders lack of energy after yet another impossible horse won the "graded race". Its a joke. The best part is that none of em can come on here without looking like coward redboarders and saying the horse had any chance at all. Stands to reason if they liked the horse that they would bet the farm at 50-1 right?
Its a joke, I wouldn't bet a nickel on that garbage, and thats exactly what it is, garbage.
Geez Stud, as a business guy lemme ask you something ok? What do you think the chances are that people are getting "gifts", "no show jobs for family members", "paid vacations", " promises of future gifts or jobs", or just "flat out sums of money" for steering a contract for this garbage to one of the eurotrash conmen at 8-10 mill?
Are you kidding me?
Its gonna be just like local politics in a few years. You know, when they discover that the mayor or governor of the state awarded a large contract to a company and then two years after leaving office shows up on the board of directors in a no show job at 250 K a year at the company they awarded the contract to.
Thats really what that filth is about.
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Well, I just cannot believe that the stuff can possibly be better than well-maintained, good old fashioned dirt. I suppose I can understand why they put it in at Turfway (weather, frozen tracks, etc,...) but just because one track wants to run in the winter offering a smorgasboard of different $5k-$10k conditioned claimers doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, even for Turfway. I mean, aside from offering people a place to run very cheap horses in very poor weather, what other purpose do the Turfway "holiday" and winter meets serve? I don't begrudge Turfway horsemen or the people who like to wager on its races, but it's just not for me.
I read a post on another thread about an increase in foot and hoof problems potentially attributed to the artificial track at Turfway ... infections and carpet burn-type symptoms. I also read that trainers are spraying their horses feet with cooking spray to lessen the impact. Crazy stuff and I would bet dollars to dimes the "carpet salesman" from Polytrack did not have a slide on carpet burn symptoms in his PowerPoint presentation.
Hard to believe that Keeneland, which runs what, 10 weeks a year, went for this.