Dirt racings demise?

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Originally Posted by philcski

...especially considering there are synthetic surfaces which play comparable to traditional dirt (see: Arlington, Presque Isle, even Turfway), which tells me the track maintenance is to fault.

While these tracks may be closer to dirt than Delmar and Keeneland, there is no way they are even close to be comparable to dirt the way we are used to seeing it.