My theory and feelings on Polytrack

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by oracle80

I think that Hollywood is a short meet and the effects of Poly out west won't truly be felt until the Hoolywood summer meet opens which leads into Del Mar which will have poly by then.
I also see owners out there with well bred or expensive horses who don't run a lick on it not having a hell of a lot of patience.
This will lead to owners shipping horses of said horses back East for dirt racing.
I think the biggest impact it will have out there will be that several big name trainers may open stables or increase their presence in the East so that if and when this happens, that they won't lose horses completely to other trainers in the East. They will simply tell the owner that they are gonna ship the horse to their East Coast division.
I make this a very short price to happen Jackofhearts.

at the same time though we MAY see the owneres of horses that are successful on synthetic tracks start shipping IN to california...something that does not currently happen very often. Not saying that the two will balance each other out equally at first but over time they probably will.