first arlington, now del mar

Originally Posted by Danzig188

del mar is already worried about the amount of injuries at the track. two different tracks having a bad time of it--this can't be the surfaces. it's gotta be the horses. aren't we still experiencing the affects of mrls??? less horses to run, same # of races to fill. and as one person elsewhere was quoted in a newspaper article, there is no 'off season' for horses to rest and recuperate.
it can't just be a change in surface from say hollywood to del mar, right? wouldn't those #'s remain consistent from year to year if that was the case?

ALl Cali tracks have to go to a synthetic surface so they are addressing the issue. But MRLS has nothing to do with soundness of a horse.

[sumitas]

It is shameful how some of these tracks just pass the buck.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by eurobounce

ALl Cali tracks have to go to a synthetic surface so they are addressing the issue. But MRLS has nothing to do with soundness of a horse.

i wasn't suggesting that mrls caused unsoundness. i was suggesting that having less horses to fill races might make trainers enter more often than they normally would so races would fill.