Breeder's Cup Rep on ATR

[Holland Hacker]

After hearing the interview I'm curious to find out what makes Randy Moss and "Expert" on horse safety?

I was also thinking that the statsitic he threw out "that there was a 42% reduction in fatalities in California as a result of the installation of the Synthetic surfaces" is probably GREATLY Skewed by the fact that the year before they installed Synthetics Del Mar had an unusually high number of breakdowns. It would be interesting to see what the statistics were if that year was excluded. Clearly there were issues with both the track and the sub-surface (Base) of the track that needed to be addressed regardless of the installation of a synthetic surface.

Anybody else have any thoughts?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Holland Hacker

After hearing the interview I'm curious to find out what makes Randy Moss and "Expert" on horse safety?

I was also thinking that the statsitic he threw out "that there was a 42% reduction in fatalities in California as a result of the installation of the Synthetic surfaces" is probably GREATLY Skewed by the fact that the year before they installed Synthetics Del Mar had an unusually high number of breakdowns. It would be interesting to see what the statistics were if that year was excluded. Clearly there were issues with both the track and the sub-surface (Base) of the track that needed to be addressed regardless of the installation of a synthetic surface.

Anybody else have any thoughts?

Yeah, no one knows off a record high number of fatalities what would have happened had they replaced the surface with a state of the art dirt surface. Could have been 42% as well, could have been 20%, could have been 60%.

[Norfolk]

Originally Posted by Holland Hacker

I was also thinking that the statsitic he threw out "that there was a 42% reduction in fatalities in California as a result of the installation of the Synthetic surfaces" is probably GREATLY Skewed by the fact that the year before they installed Synthetics Del Mar had an unusually high number of breakdowns.

Anybody else have any thoughts?

I would like to see a report on soft tissue injuries.