Picking tracks

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

if the track proves to be like Keenland it will be a dream as all the speed players (most) will get gobbled up in the stretch

I'm well aware that closers were the way to go at Keeneland's inaugural meet on Polytrack. That might hold true in the upcoming spring meeting too. But as long as I've been following Keeneland, which has been about nine years, I've noticed that the spring meeting was the one which rail and/or front speed was dominate. The fall meeting usually was pretty fair.

I'd keep an open mind early in the meet since the "conventional wisdom" is speed is not good. The surface is new, and not much is known about it except that some third rate tracks in the UK have it and Michael Dickinson trains his horses over the surface.