Racing Fatalities At Turfway Park Up 50%

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Delta is the only airline I feel safe enough to fly a dog in cargo on. I used to be able to hop a commuter in Lex and be in Chicago by 11am, and home by 7pm, but no more. Flying is not as fun as it was in the 1970-1980's, that's for sure!

I support synthetic tracks because there is enough research out there, in the various products previous uses results overseas and the physical science they are based upon, for me, to show they are an improvement over most dirt tracks.

I certainly don't consider myself a, "sports detractor" for wanting tracks to be safer and better for the horses, via incorporation of the results of biological research, biomechanics research and physics into construction, materials, etc.

Nobody pulled the construction of these tracks out of the blue sky - they are constructed as they are for a reason, and I've never seen anyone in the racing industry (or even the manufacturers, for that matter) really try to point out the valid science they are based upon.

Well, Steve tried to once, when he had Professor M. Peterson on his show

(any physics geeks that want a copy of "Report on the System Development for In-Situ Characterization of Horse Racing Track Surfaces, Submitted to: Dr. C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, Ph.D., FRCVS , Director of Orthopaedic Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523 By: M. L. Peterson, Ph.D. Stillwater River Technologies, 61 Bennoch Rd., Orono, ME 04473" e-mail me privately)