Churchill Moving Races to Ellis Park

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by jms62

Freddie,

Regarding synthetic. Spend less time thinking about your lack of success and more time thinking it is JAS (Just Another Surface). Think of it as a business problem in need of a solution. I've never met you but those I know that have speak highly of you. You can and will figure it out.

Respectfully, I think this dismisses his concern, if I read him right. One of the joys of handicapping is trying to come up with reasoned opinions and hope you’re right. When you end up wrong, we at least want to be able to look back and understand an outcome. When you start just getting random results that don’t make any logical sense other than “that’s just racing”, I think that will hurt the sport long term.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Respectfully, I think this dismisses his concern, if I read him right. One of the joys of handicapping is trying to come up with reasoned opinions and hope you’re right. When you end up wrong, we at least want to be able to look back and understand an outcome. When you start just getting random results that don’t make any logical sense other than “that’s just racing,” I think that will hurt the sport long term.

In part, this is true. I expect to lose, we all do, because nobody bats .500 unless they are Frank with a couple of belts in him picking 3/5 shots on Fox. That is must-watch TV.

You know the mile turf races at SPA have an element of randomness, and you adjust for that and use those races as an opportunity to get more creative. Tapeta is more boring than anything else, and I love it for getting horses fit to go on dirt. If they have handled dirt ground in the past and come back to it after "prepping" on tapeta, it seems to be a good angle for me.

I do think Tapeta is an answer for breakdowns. Not so much for the future of great racing

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by freddymo

In part, this is true. I expect to lose, we all do, because nobody bats .500 unless they are Frank with a couple of belts in him picking 3/5 shots on Fox. That is must-watch TV.

You know the mile turf races at SPA have an element of randomness, and you adjust for that and use those races as an opportunity to get more creative. Tapeta is more boring than anything else, and I love it for getting horses fit to go on dirt. If they have handled dirt ground in the past and come back to it after "prepping" on tapeta, it seems to be a good angle for me.

I do think Tapeta is an answer for breakdowns. Not so much for the future of great racing

I can't help but remember back to the initial days of Polytrack and Cushion Track and Pro-ride stuff. I hated those days, although it did give us Raven's Pass over Henrythenavigator in the Classic.