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Old 04-28-2010, 10:25 AM
parsixfarms parsixfarms is offline
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Originally Posted by slotdirt View Post
Isn't Santa Anita considering a switch back to real dirt anyway? Eliminating synthetics would get rid of worthless graded earnings from awful races like the El Camino Real, the Lane's End, and the Blue Grass. Aside from Hard Spun, what worthwhile Derby entrant in the synthetics era earned their entry card in any of those three races and then went on to actually run well at Churchill?
Couldn't you say the same thing about races like the Wood Memorial, Louisiana Derby and Illinois Derby?
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