Taking the Breeder's Cup back to a "Championship"

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Does anyone else have a big problem with Breeders Cup races being run over an artifical dirt surface?

After watching Keeneland's fall meet, and some Hollywood Park racing---I really hope it's a long, long time before races that play a key role in deciding dirt championships, are run over an artifical surface.

They can't keep the Breeders Cup out of Southern California forever though.

As of right now I do have a problem with running the breeders cup on a artifical surface. Until the majority of the major tracks have an artifical surface and the majority of the races run are on poly, how can you have the so called championship races run on a surface that most of the horse have not ran on? In a year that they do hold the BC at a track with poly, are the trainers going to steer there BC horses to run all there prep races at synthetic tracks only. Meaning you will not see any BC contenders at NY tracks, Churchill and so on. Then there is the Handicapping issue which should probably be a totally differnent thread.