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08-22-2007, 11:15 PM
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ya ever walk on a dirt track? deep and tiring... i dont know how these horses do it! 
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08-27-2007, 05:04 AM
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Leading trainer praises new polytrack surface in Ireland.
From www.attheraces.com Champion trainer Aidan O'Brien may have been out of luck with his only two runners but he was nevertheless as impressed as everyone else with what he had seen at the newly opened Dundalk racecourse. The Ballydoyle handler told At The Races: "It's an absolute credit to everybody, I think it will serve Irish racing well for a long time and I'll look forward to coming here. The track is unbelievable. It's a big, galloping track and the surface is very consistent. The facilities are great too. "It's a place we will use to prepare horses for America. It's a surface that will bring the whole world together and we are going to get a lot of consistency, which is going to be great." Johnny Murtagh was also full of praise and added: "We have the best horses in the world, the best trainers and some great jockeys. This is just going to add to it - in a couple of years we will be thinking how did we do without it. There's a real good feel to the place. "Irish racing is, in my mind - and I've been all over the world - right up at the top. We have to keep going and keep improving, not rest on our laurels. We have to let everyone know we are the best." ******************** So, why are there so many problems in America? Dundalk is a brand new surface, they haven't needed time to get used to how it rides or needed time to make sure it is prepared correctly. As i keep saying, the problem is with the people preparing these surfaces in America, not the surface itself. Unless they learn (or can be bothered to learn) what they have to do to provide and consistant and safe surface, the problems you guys are having with Poly over there will continue.
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