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Originally Posted by Balletto
No one is saying change your breeding methods by looking at 2 weeks worth of results. The point was its something every breeder should be looking at.
No, polytrack isnt "new" to the world. There are all-weather tracks all over Europe... but its new to North America and the majority of our dirt stallions.
Furthermore, those "top" stallions on the list are also good to great turf stallions. Thats the point that was being drawn from the results. Horses who can produce versatile runners on either surface seem to be reaping some success on the polytrack.
And these numbers are very limited... there's not enough info around to make a safe judgement, but it would be ridiculous to not pay attention and keep a tally of whats going on.
Until you can put your money where your mouth is and feel 100% confident that polytrack will have no impact on the foal you breed and the future worth of your mare, I wouldnt be so quick to jump into conversations balls out when the point of the whole topic is to keep a tally of possible outcomes and results not to make a definitive conclusion off two weeks worth of results.
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I thought you were basing this on the belief that turf runners do better on poly, which is simply not true. There is no proof of this anywhere.
There are two or three horses that showed this and it could simply be those horses don't like the kickback on dirt, and with the poly they don't have to deal with it.
It is much more likely that track configuration and the role of kickback are at play here, not the breeding.