god dang that looked bad

[ELA]

Are people just looking to argue or what? LOL. Anyway, these synthetic tracks are relatively new. The concept has been around a long time and in use at various training centers/farms. At a track, for a meet, of course it's different. Hundreds of horses, thousands for that matter, going over the track in the morning and then again in the afternoon. I think there was an expected learning curve here as far as maintenance and upkeep.

Regardless, those who are staunch supporters and feel this is the panacea and answer to the sport's ills will say it needs tweaking and it's supposed to be that way, etc. Those who think this is the worst thing to come along since Lasix or something like that, well of course they will say this is terrible and it's not working, the trainers hate it, etc.

I think the real answer is somewhere in the middle.

Eric