Grass Ranks Thinning Because of Synthetics

[SniperSB23]

I'm expecting Champs Elysees to win all the "dirt" G1's in California this year. I'm going to want to punch out the first person I hear that calls him a great dirt horse because of it. There is absolutely no reason to run on the turf now. The Breeders Cup the next two years is going to be such a farce if the foreigners realize what is going on here. If Go Between can win big races on the cushion crap then imagine what a good European horse could do.

[jwkniska]

It makes the one or two big Euros that will run in the classic a whole lot more viable.

[the_fat_man]

Glass ranks thinning because of CHEAP PURSES at GP and the need by FG and TAM to "save" their turf courses.

Plenty of fine turf horses out there.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

Glass ranks thinning because of CHEAP PURSES at GP and the need by FG and TAM to "save" their turf courses.

Plenty of fine turf horses out there.

Those tracks don't have synthetics though so there aren't other options for them. If Gulfstream was a synthetic you would see Shamdinan and Cosmonaut showing up and probably doing well in the Donn Handicap.

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by jwkniska

It makes the one or two big Euros that will run in the classic a whole lot more viable.

Originally Posted by Fischer Bobby04-20-2007, 12:23 AM

pedigree could become a factor depending on how the surface turns out.

Last year we had two turf horses in the BC Classic who didn't stand much of a chance. Both out of the sire Danehill. At Hollywood cushion-track, they would have run better races and wouldn't have been automatic tosses.

I don't like any Grade 1 race being run on polytrack. On the bright side the payoffs could be very nice.

a danehill or dansili winning the classic?