Turfway - Poly

[whodey17]

Originally Posted by Riot

I"ll take the horses over the bettors any day.

The different historical dirt tracks (and turf tracks) have long had individual characteristics known by handicappers. Some known for being deep and tiring (and more predisposing to things like muscle pulls and strains, back pain, etc); some hard, concrete-like (more predisposing to bone injury/catastrophic breakdown, bruises). Some have always favored stalkers/closers, some are well-known front-end-winning speed highways. That's nothing new, and it's always been a part of handicapping.

So the extreme fuss over the various synthetic surfaces still surprises me. It's just another surface, guys. It's no more "chaotic" than the last two weeks of Saratoga were, to my eyes.

I agree with that you are saying. I would just like to see the surface at Turfway be a little better. I think it is worse now than it was at the beginning of Poly at Turfway.

[Riot]

I think all handicappers want is some degree of predictability that they can utilize.

That has always taken some time from opening day of a meet (and each morning with some meets) for historical tracks, and it will take time for the synthetics to settle in, too.