Arlington safety...putting it in perspective

[Scav]

Originally Posted by sumitas

i am saddened to confirm the tragedy with this link. my condolences to all.
http://www.horseplayerdaily.com/

But polytrack is the next great thing???

From what I have heard, there has been more breakdowns at Santa Anita in like two weeks of training then the WHOLE Saratoga meet. This is a third-word stat but I doubt it is wrong

[The Bid]

Its not wrong, but dont say that too loud.

Surprisingly DRF reported Latin Rhythms breaking down and now Drill Down

How sad, both nice horses. Apparently as noted in the DRF column the track didnt handle the rain. Hows that for an all weather surface. We are talking about TWP handling below freezing and snow and this track cant even handle a little rain, PUHLEASE

[The Bid]

BUMP

[ArlJim78]

from the drf article, a quote from Michael Baze who was riding Drill Down.

"He was real relaxed," Baze said. "He just took a bad step at the quarter pole."

and Drill Down's trainer;

"You're always hearing things about the racetrack, but I can't say the track is bad," Machowsky said. "It's just one of those things, and it's a tough one to choke down."

[The Bid]

I know where they broke down, both over life saving surfaces.

Jim, heres a few others since you are into the quotes

Trainer Jack Carava had several main-track workouts scheduled for Monday morning, but made a last-minute decision to move his works to the dirt training track.

"It just didn't feel right," he said about the Cushion Track. "I know what they had to do [Sunday] to this track to get it to dry out."


"It's a work in progress, and I think they haven't got the point where they have it right yet," he said.

Vienna will work horses on the training track instead.

Cushion Track is billed as an all-weather surface, but when Magna track-surface consultant Ted Malloy was asked how the surface handled the approximate half-inch of weekend rain, he answered, "Not very well." Malloy said it will improve with revised maintenance procedures.

To me, and anyone else with a brain, it seems like they dont know what they are doing. The track obviously DIDNT handle the rain, but I guess we can spin it however wed like. Fact is 2 very nice horses had catastrophic breakdowns over an all weather synthetic surface devised to save lives and handle rain.

[VOL JACK]

Your making me look forward to Keeneland. The prez of Kee, Nich Nicholson, proclaimed the racetrack was "the star of the meet". If he says so it must be true because track management is never wrong.

[sumitas]

it is extremely disappointing to read there are problems handling the rain when that is supposed to be a huge plus for poly. very disappointing the way the SA poly is performing, no question.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by The Bid

Its not wrong, but dont say that too loud.

Surprisingly DRF reported Latin Rhythms breaking down and now Drill Down

How sad, both nice horses. Apparently as noted in the DRF column the track didnt handle the rain. Hows that for an all weather surface. We are talking about TWP handling below freezing and snow and this track cant even handle a little rain, PUHLEASE

Latin Rhythms broke down at Hollywood Park.