NY Circuit to go Poly soon?

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by The Bid

Very sad

How so? IMHO, if there's been one good thing to come out of this whole mess, it's that Magna/Churchill will not be getting their paws on NY racing.

[ateamstupid]

Disgusting.

[The Bid]

Its sad to see the game I grew up loving changed because of a few english morons, and poor track management. Keeneland is mostly to blame, they were the first major track to install that crap. Of course Keeneland gets the best season to run on the poly. Turfway endured a brutal winter and lied about the track the entire way through, all the tracks have had issues with the surface eventhough its not discussed openly. WIthout getting into a big poly debate I just think its a very sad situation. Im heartsick they would even consider switching to synthetic in NY.

[JJP]

Originally Posted by The Bid

Its sad to see the game I grew up loving changed because of a few english morons, and poor track management. Keeneland is mostly to blame, they were the first major track to install that crap. Of course Keeneland gets the best season to run on the poly. Turfway endured a brutal winter and lied about the track the entire way through, all the tracks have had issues with the surface eventhough its not discussed openly. WIthout getting into a big poly debate I just think its a very sad situation. Im heartsick they would even consider switching to synthetic in NY.

Post of the day.

If it happens, R.I.P. New York racing.

All I've got to say is Mountaineer and Charles Town look better and better every day.

I have to believe somebody that owns polytrack is slipping a lot of money around under the table, if you know what I mean. It probably is much like road construction contracts. Give a few dollars to the right people and then all of the sudden you are building.

Sad to say it but I bet it is 4-5 or lower that america's big tracks will be just about 100% polytrack in 10 years.

[The Bid]

Lot of works cancelled today at Delmar because the track was rock hard. Talked to a guy there and he said it was ridiculous. Of course they say they are just working out the kinks, we will see

[JJP]

Just wait until the idiot talking heads at TVG start talking it up. Funny how they never mentioned previous problems when Hol had issues and TP with the clumping of the PT. Almost leads one to think they have an agenda.....

[The Bid]

Its tragic anyone would buy into that stuff being better than a good dirt track.

[Swap Fliparoo]

Originally Posted by Benevolus

I have to believe somebody that owns polytrack is slipping a lot of money around under the table, if you know what I mean. It probably is much like road construction contracts. Give a few dollars to the right people and then all of the sudden you are building.

His name is Martin Collins!

Sold interest in the Poly company to the non-profit Keeneland Association, who now have a vested interest in hocking the stuff and not discussing the negatives with the media.

[sumitas]

it's deja vous all over again

[ArlJim78]

its been very negative at Arlington other than the dramatically reduced number of catostrophic breakdowns (14 in '06 vs. 2 in '07), the increased field sizes, and the increased handle. But who cares about facts like those when instead we can just make unsubtantiated rants about people being paid under the table.