I don't have any doubt that training horses on these surfaces is far superior to training horses on dirt.Most trainers in the L.A. area have gone out of their way to get their horses to train over the cushion at HWD.ONEIL,MULLINS,HARRINGTON etc. all prefer it.As far as using it as a racing surface goes,after what I saw with that biased cuppy sht at the Breeders Cup,there is no way it can't be better than dirt.They may have some problems with tweaking it,but it's like comparing an Apple to a piece of Apple Pie. Even a bad piece of Apple Pie is just better than a plain Apple.)If you like to cap using daily biases,then you'll never want the biases(dirt) to go away.They are gunna have some trouble with these new surfaces,but they will pale in comparison to the constant daily biases on dirt tracks.If the artificial surfaces have biases,they will be consistent biases.The 1st horse out of the gate no longer wins every dirt race on Friday nights at HWD PARK.That's a huge improvement,but if you like huge daily biases,you will never like giving up the dirt.Whatever problem they have at HWD today,pales in comparison to that joke of a track we saw on Breeders Cup Day.If you still think that was a fair track,then take it up with yet another observer:
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