Dylan Thomas points for Jockey Club Gold Cup

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

There's hardly a real sample size. There's only one track that has had Polytrack for any period of time and not too many good horses have raced there ( in fact just about zero ). I'm sure there will be some that are fine on both.

The point is if they want to see if Dylan Thomas can handle the dirt you would think they would try a true dirt surface.

I realize the sample size is limited, I'm not an idiot.
But I'm using the stakes races run on it at Turfway as a basis for that.
It seems to me that using the highets quality races would give you a decent base on which to examine that.
Last year's KY Cup day gave us nothing that has returned at any level on the dirt.
And the Lanes End(spiral jim beam galleryfurniture, etc) day gave us nothing either.
The inverse would be that both lawyer Ron and Lemons detested it and achieved grade one status away from it after not being able to hit the board on it.
If you look at the two big days which Turfway has hosted, and all those stakes, and the fact that noone who ran well in those stakes came back and did squat on the dirt, I'd say its a rational statement.