Del Mar - Initial thoughts?

[Scav]

I would just avoid this junk and just play the turf races. Cardus is right that horses just don't look to be running over it.

I don't think Del Mar gave itself enough time to get it right. What they should have done is taken 120k and put it into the renovation bill and run three 40k races before the start of the meet, no public,with like 8k claimers to let them observe how the track is and then make the necessary adjustments to get it to play fair. I am just surprised that the tracks that have installed these surfaces haven't run any test races to make sure things were good. Arlington has been lucky, but Turfway had the same issues at the start of the meet, along with Woodbine