Biancone, cold with 2 year olds, my theory why

[Scurlogue Champ]

Originally Posted by oracle80

They can. Euro can bash me all he wants about hearsay but I can give you ten names that most would recognize in the business who have all said that these tracks could just lay down a safe dirt surface for less money than polyjunk. Bottom line is that polytrack is nothing but a marketing ploy, nothing more nor less. Look at size of the contracts involved. And of course noone who helps land a contract for a company is ever gonna get a christmas card stuffed with bills or a no show job down the road will they? Nah, no way that could happen.
Bottom line is that its not a suitable replacement for dirt racing and not everyone is ready to toss in the towel on hundereds of years of breeding and just start over again with the breed to try and breed horses who excel on wax coated tire shreds. Its a joke really.

Why not just stop the breeding practices that have made our horses so fragile? Then they could probably run on asphalt and jump over cars while racing.

[slotdirt]

Man, would I love to see some paragraphs right about now.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Man, would I love to see some paragraphs right about now.

I was thinking the same thing, but I managed to get through it, and he's got a pretty strong point..

You know, I would just love it if American racing switched everything to the turf. Make it easy and run on turf. You can have an inner turf and change the dirt track to an outer turf. I would love that so much.

Originally Posted by eurobounce

You know, I would just love it if American racing switched everything to the turf. Make it easy and run on turf. You can have an inner turf and change the dirt track to an outer turf. I would love that so much.

I doubt the breeders would love that. They should try to make it a 50-50 game though. Turf racing is more exciting anyway.

Originally Posted by boldruler

I doubt the breeders would love that. They should try to make it a 50-50 game though. Turf racing is more exciting anyway.

You know the Breeders can adjust. They always do anyway. But turf racing is the best. Dirt racing is so boring to me.

If they run awful as 2 year olds and stay sound I say fine. When they are 3 and start making the big step up we will see. Two year olds should be at a testing stage anyway. But if the stuff totally screws up their muscle memory by making them stride inefficiently at an early age and it sticks, then its a problem.

Although your statements are solid (and health of the horse a priority), I dont know I would want to take the risk as an owner. Like its been said, he trains some very expensive babies... should be interesting to see if this holds true.