Arlington Poly opens Wednesday morning

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Originally Posted by JJP

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I checked it out last weekend. We'll see how it goes. Personally, I think way too may tracks have rushed into it (i.e. ALL the SoCal tracks) but Turfway needed to do something and Arlington had TONS of negative publicity last year w/the breakdowns. The local media was relentless in pounding them over it.

I do think they will get some more KY shippers as there's going to be a load of horses who ran well over the Poly at Kee and TP so look for bigger field sizes. Arlington has always been one of the more closer-friendly tracks so this will be nothing like the Keeneland transformation.

I actually walked right on it the other day on the backstretch when they were finishing up, it is sticky as hell, that PAM thing that Chuck was talking about is perfect. I grabbed a handful and had to wash my hands to get what felt like grease off.