Grass Ranks Thinning Because of Synthetics

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Originally Posted by Danzig

turf racing has always been the red-headed step child of horse racing over here anyway. altho some of us enjoy a good turf race, most think that dirt is the be all, end all....no surprise that an alternative to dirt is thinning the turf ranks more.


but, the big dirt races draw some crossovers every year. had santa anita remained dirt, you may well have had a few turfers make the attempt anyway, just because the race is coming up relatively weak-remember that einstein recently made the not so successful attempt on the main in fla--where there is no synthetic...

Right, which is exactly what would have happened to horses like Go Between in the past. On the synthetics though these turf horses are becoming G1 winners on the "dirt" when they wouldn't run a step on real dirt.