Both of the Asmussen horses suffered injuries from workouts over the Oklahoma training track (where Asmussen is stabled), not the main track. To the extent that I heard complaints about that surface, they have not been that the track's too slow or deep; rather, the complaints have been that the Oklahoma track has frequently been sealed and that it's a (historically) faster surface.
And the track that Winslow Homer ran over was not a slow, tiring surface.
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