Arlington safety...putting it in perspective

[The Bid]

I know where they broke down, both over life saving surfaces.

Jim, heres a few others since you are into the quotes

Trainer Jack Carava had several main-track workouts scheduled for Monday morning, but made a last-minute decision to move his works to the dirt training track.

"It just didn't feel right," he said about the Cushion Track. "I know what they had to do [Sunday] to this track to get it to dry out."


"It's a work in progress, and I think they haven't got the point where they have it right yet," he said.

Vienna will work horses on the training track instead.

Cushion Track is billed as an all-weather surface, but when Magna track-surface consultant Ted Malloy was asked how the surface handled the approximate half-inch of weekend rain, he answered, "Not very well." Malloy said it will improve with revised maintenance procedures.

To me, and anyone else with a brain, it seems like they dont know what they are doing. The track obviously DIDNT handle the rain, but I guess we can spin it however wed like. Fact is 2 very nice horses had catastrophic breakdowns over an all weather synthetic surface devised to save lives and handle rain.