Problems with Hollywood park's new track?

Originally Posted by Honu

I just dont get why they cant let well enough alone, I know trainers for the most part are about speed out here , but to be honest 32,000 $ claimers should run 6 1/2 in 1:17 and good horses should go 8 lengths faster in about 1:15. When cheap horses go 3/4 in 1:08 and change they shouldnt wonder why their horses break down and are sore or do they even care.

Honu, you and I have spoken before and you conceded without me asking you to that East Coast trainers were better at getting horses fit without killing them in training.
When I was in Kentucky Frank Lyons, who used to train, and I got in a horse talk and I told him I thought the Cali trainers were the problem, not the surfaces, because every 7 days they zoom the **** out of them in the morning.
He responded to me with something that I had never even thought of, he said they didn't do it out of stupidity, he said they did it out of insecurity.
He said the guys out there were insecure and felt like if the horse wasn't zooming than he wasn't very good. I know Mullins takes it easy on them, and its my guess that he wins a lot because he claims these horses who are being beaten on and eases up on them.
Does ANYONE out there just breeze easily and gallop them into fitness? because quite frankly i don't think any new surface is gonna fix whats wrong out there, which is to work em just as fast as their little legs can carry them every 7 days. Nobody good in NY does that, nobody. You work a horse in 58 flat in Cali, and the trainer is thrilled. When that happens in NY, you can bet your ass that an exercise rider is now unemployed.