Hollywood Park is History today

Originally Posted by oracle80

You can count me out of playing Hollywood other than grass races in the fall. This stuff is going to have a bad effect on handle eventually. Its completely unformful in relation to dirt racing. WHose gonna risk running high priced stuff on that surface very long? You can bet your butt that once they start running on it, the owners who have horses who dont fire on it will be shipping their horses out of there faster than you can say dirt.

What I think it going to happen is that trainers will train their horses on the stuff. Maybe run them on the stuff when they come back from an injury, or maybe to get the horse some experience. A great angle to play is going to be a first time starter on Poly and doesnt do well. Then the trainer moves the horse to dirt. Also the same can be applied to horses off a layoff.