Steve Asmussen in synthetic track stake races

[The Indomitable DrugS]

No idea. Probably has to do with training routines and methods ... but you can't pretend to know for sure.

Jamie Ness struggled badly up here for almost half of the meet. He was complaining about the track. At about the exact point in which he told me he was going to change a bunch of things up ... within two or three weeks he was on fire ... and he was insanely strong by the end of the meet.

It's not something like with a Glenn Wismer ... where you have a guy who has almost half of his horses sired by Cozar.

Since Nov 20th of 2006 ... Wismer is 2-for-173 in dirt races.

Since March 21st of 2007 ... he's 1-for-145 in dirt races.

Since March 5th of 2008 ... he's 0-for-75 in dirt races.

He's 37-for-175 on PID's synthetic track - that's 21.1% wins with a mind-boggling $3.45 ROI. On Keeneland's synthetic track, he's 2-for-16 with a $5.44 ROI.

Forget about the extreme difference in win percentage ... the difference in ROI is insane. From $0.02 on dirt to $3.45 on PID synthetic. One's a 99% loss on investment .. the other is a 72.5% gain. - and you're talking about triple digit sample sizes with both.