now nyra is thinking about it

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

Try a paragraph break and maybe a space or two after punctuation.

Amen to that.

No offense, SCUDS, but honestly I would like to read your posts, even though I completely disagree with you on this issue, but because of the lack of spacing I personally find it impossible. I don't think I'm alone.

[pmacdaddy]

Everyoneknowsthatthespacebarsendsmorsecodetoaliens andmustbeignoredcompletely.

[tector]

If you think high-profile breakdown after high-profile breakdown is going to occur with no consequence, you are kidding yourselves. Of course the problem is ultimately the breed, which has been more screwed up than many of AKC dog breeds, and drugs, but those require hard solutions (indeed, the first would take several horse generations to reverse, even if the will to do so existed, which it doesn't--it has been 30+ years in the making). But running the horses over a chopped up trampoline is a quick, partial fix. It will happen, and horseplayers will adjust. They continue to bet notwithstanding widespread cheating and doping--and they will bet the synthetic tracks when there is really no other choice. So far the changeover has been haphazard and badly researched in advance, but now that it has happened in SoCal and other places, NYRA and the others can learn from them. I seriously doubt there will be a North American Grade I race run on dirt by 2015.

[SniperSB23]

In ten years this could easily be synthetic tracks:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2008-...rf-cover_N.htm

[sumitas]

Jack Knowlton is quoted as saying there is a 25% reduction in fatal injuries on synthetic tracks.

http://thoroughbredtimes.com/nationa...-surfaces.aspx

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Jack Knowlton is quoted as saying there is a 25% reduction in fatal injuries on synthetic tracks.

http://thoroughbredtimes.com/nationa...-surfaces.aspx

Well then I guess it is settled.

[slotdirt]

WELL then, if Jack Knowlton said it, then clearly it must be fact.

[Payson Dave]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Jack Knowlton is quoted as saying there is a 25% reduction in fatal injuries on synthetic tracks.

http://thoroughbredtimes.com/nationa...-surfaces.aspx

Where does he say this.....not that I saw in the linked story

[sumitas]

“The data thus far shows a reduction in fatal injuries, maybe 25%,” Knowlton said.

But he said that trainers are reporting more soft tissue, back and hind-quarter injuries with artificial material."


from the Tbred times link in my post.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by sumitas

Jack Knowlton is quoted as saying there is a 25% reduction in fatal injuries on synthetic tracks.

One of the problems in this industry is who gets anointed as somehow knowledgable. Nothing personal against Jack Knowlton, as he seems like a nice man, but what exactly are his qualifications? Other than, of course, having been quoted by Sumitas.

[Danzig]

you mean misquoted...mr knowlton said 'maybe 25%'-sumitas gave it out as 25%. i think the maybe is important.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Amen to that.

No offense, SCUDS, but honestly I would like to read your posts, even though I completely disagree with you on this issue, but because of the lack of spacing I personally find it impossible. I don't think I'm alone.

How do you know that you disagree with me on this issue? You said you find it impossible to read the posts. It doesn't matter what most of us think about the issue. Like anything else in racing, it's gunna be decided by a few boards of connected people, and the "horsemen" (of course.) Why do people start complaining about my lazy writing at this moment in time? Took you long enough.