Dead Rail on Kentucky Oaks day?

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Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

I am not real big into good part, bad part of the track, not saying its impossible but I find it a bit random, this is different than a track that has a certain profile that day after day seems to benefit a inside or outside. I think for years people would claim there was a inside speed bias when in reality the pace horses are generally the better horses in most races thus fed the perception.

When they are sealing it I always thought they wanted the water to just float on top, so they are intentionally hardening it, which I suppose could do something, but the idea that its a little softer in path 2 versus path 4 by sticking a pencil into the ground and comparing that to a 1000 pound animal running....its far fetched to me.

The piece Donna Barton did on track weight seemed a bit irresponsible to me. My inner voice keeps saying - walk around the track not across it. To infer what she did seems a little far fetched to me.