"Spaced" Races And "Fresh" Horses Are Killing The Sport

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

They have been slowed a bit, but the part where I refer to them as being speedways (like a car race track; hard like a road) is that they are harder than ever. They don't have a soft surface...that is why they are turning to polytrack.

It is the same with Belmont which was faster during the 70s and 80s than it is today. Although, the horses at Belmont don't nearly have the same soundness issues in terms of quantity as those out in the Cali tracks.

Fact, after installing polytrack at Turfway, 24 breakdowns turned into 3 during the same period of time.

So BB, why did they try to slow the track down after the 80s at Belmont and after the 60s in Cali?

Where to begin ... where to begin ...

First of all ... you're fortunate that I've raised two exceptional children to adulthood ... which has long since helped me acquire the patience and fortitude necessary to deal with someone as wildly immature and unfocused as you.

Second ... if a track surface is too hard ... the solution is to make it softer. This can be accomplished will a nice heaping of good old loam. The question of whether or not to install an artifical surface is a completely different matter.

Third ... tracks which became too hard received complaints from horsemen when their charges began breaking down ... so that's why they were made softer. Of course ... they can't be made too soft because that brings on injuries like bowed tendons. So ... like Goldilocks' bed ... the tracks have to maintained "just right."

Fourth ... if California tracks are harder then ever ... then how at the same time are they softer than they used to be?

Can you begin to understand how wacky your posts are ... how impulsively they're composed ... how self-contradicitng they are ... not only from one to another ... but within themselves?

Child ... you need to get yourself under better control ... or find yourself a big, strong man who'll help you accomplish that.