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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie
what is interesting to me would be to see if poly actually is safer that dirt. does anyone know the real world data for injuries over poly vs dirt?
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There is alot of published scientific information relating type of injuries sustained to track surface characteristics (the basis for the development of artificial surfaces, which are constructed to eliminate undesireable characteristics and maintain desired characteristics). Look in PubMed or google, "thoroughbred" and "fracture".
There is no one published study on "Polytrack vs dirt". Many tracks don't even officially track injuries. CA does have an injury reporting system.
Just this year, Dr. Mary Scollay has started a national injury reporting system, and alot of tracks have signed up to participate (search in BloodHorse for the article from May, I think, of this year?).
This will provide the detailed information needed to accurately cross-compare many tracks (turf, dirt, synthetic) regarding frequency of injury occurence at a particular track, type of injuries, types of injuries associated with different working surfaces, etc. I wish Steve would have Dr. Scollay as a guest on ATR.