HOTY: If Zenyatta wins the Classic...

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by CSC

The surface debate is immaterial to me, you play the cards dealt to you, next year they are holding the BC at Chuchill Downs and the synth horses will supposedly be at a disadvantage. Supposing there is a Poly horse that builds a RA type resume and coasts to perhaps a HOY, will there be any dissentions also? There just seems to be so much of an anti-bias here that synth horses are inferior to dirt horses, I must be missing something because I don't get it?

Maybe because dirt is a natural surface that has been used to measure which horse was the best for thousands of years?

You don't have dirt specialists like you do synth specialists.

I think synth racing is more interesting from a betting perspective (because, for instance, people made Pyro 5-1 yesterday), but it allows horses who are nothing special on dirt to pass their more talented rivals when those rivals can't handle the fake stuff.

I don't think Zenyatta falls into the category of synth specialist, though.

(I realize how played out this whole argument is. . . )