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Originally Posted by oracle80
Pgard, they TRAIN on it. yeah they run some minor races on it in the winter, but training is its primary function.
You can talk to a lotta trainers who will tell you that their horses train fine on grass(how many times have we read that before a stakes horse makes his grass debut?), but they don't run on it worth a damn.
I'm hearing the same thing as Joel, trainers say they train ok on it, but don't race worth a damn on it.
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OK cool. Why not? They train well but the cant race race on it. Do they have specific running styles that seem to flourish on it? They gotta have a few horses who have run a race well on it. Why did the horses run well on it? That kind of thing. If its going to spread. I personally would immediately try and draw a general pattern of horses that run well on it. And then test it on the track in a race. A pattern has got to emerge. Even a pattern that changes as the polytrack might change in diff. conditions... just like dirt to slop to mud back to sludge... Just my way. Curiosity and insight has gotta rule here or nothing goes forward. Griping is fine, but if its going to happen anyway...