Poly speed disaster at keeneland

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I haven't heard any reports from Woodbine so I can't comment on it. I can tell you that everyone loves the track at Hollywood Park so far. I think the reports from Kentucky have been quite positive too.

With regard to Keeneland, there used to be a huge speed bias. If there is an anti-speed bias now, that's not so bad. I don't care what the bias is. As long as we know what the bias is, then we can deal with it.

I don't really have an opinion one way or the other when it comes to polytrack. I can tell you that the surfaces in Southern California have been really bad for a long time now and we needed to do something. I would rather have polytrack than what we have had for the last several years. Anything is better than what we have had for the last several years. It would have probably been better if we could have put in good, new dirt tracks but I don't think anyone had confidence that the job would have been done right.

I dont really think the tracks are so bad per say here in Cali but how they are maintained and how horseman train.
You can look any day of the week and more horses work at So. Cali . racetracks each day than anywhere else in the nation.
The trackman with dirt surface racing has control of all the factors , I cant tell you how many days the track will be one way and then all of a sudden its a diffirent way, I dont mind that they dig it up but jeez could you please add a little more water to it so it isnt so damn cuppy. The biggest bonus I see with Polytrack is that basically it takes care of itself without much human intervention, I think that its a very big key that you dont have some trackman deeming how he wants the track to be.