Another breakdown at Turfway

Originally Posted by pmayjr

Guys... in the bend it's gonna take years of speculation,
denials, and trends to truly see if Poly is any safer than dirt.

Any improvements towards safety should not rest solely on the racing surface.
Improvements to the starting gate has long been overlooked.

For those of us who watch the head-on replays of the starts,
it's laughable that absolutely nothing was done
after Barbaro "gate breakthrough" in the Preakness
only to reload and severly injure himself on National Television.

It's only a matter of time before the gate comes into play
in another major televised race.

Sad but true.