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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
You have an agenda so your misguided comments carry no weight. The problems, which are circumspect at best, are with the main track. These races are taking place over the inner which is as safe as any dirt track in the country.
Mountain General is an 8YO cheap claiming sprinter who was being asked to go 1 1/8 miles for the first time in 55 career starts. While his accident is unfortunate, it happens at tracks around the country, and any blame does not lie on the surface more than a surface can be blamed for any accident. These things happen in racing, on dirt, on turf, and yes on polytack, so pretending somehow the surface is to blame is folly.
This " NYRA should install polytack " kind of talk is insane. The franchise is in limbo, the real possibility exists that someone else will be running it in just over a year, the track has financial difficulties, the State refuses to authorize slots even though every other track awarded them has been given the go-ahead, but somehow people are insisting NYRA spend upwards of $8 million to install a racing surface? Now, when the franchise has been settled, and slots are in, even though I am at least dubious about Polytrack, certainly they should at least look into installing it. And they will. But, for now it makes absolutely zero sense, other than an insipid need to continually berate NYRA for anything that goes wrong, even though it happens everywhere, and this makes no sense. A horse broke down on the Churchill surface on BC Day. I assume you made the same comments about their surface....you know, the one Barbaro won the Derby over.
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I have no agenda. I don't own polytrack. I don't think Belmont or Saratoga should get rid of the dirt tracks, but Aqueduct is ridiculous. The main track is out of business for days because they don't know how to take care of it, so why should I believe the inner track is safe? Aqueduct is winter racing. All winter racing should be on polytrack for the safety of horses. Dirt tracks in cold weather are very dangerous and very hard on horses.
I put horses health first, you seem to put gamblers (and their dislike of poly because their thorograph sheets are useless) first. Do you care about horses or are they just numbers to you that you bet on and then watch them be taken away in the truck when they are done?