Now Arlington talks Synthetic
 

Our guy Marcus Hersh on Arlington looking at a synthetic conversion:
http://www.drf.com/news/article/80831.html

I saw that last night, and was kind of expecting this for some time.

I think Arlington would be a good place for CDI's first foray into synthetic.

That they can even project having it in place before the 07 season sounds aggressive.

I think it would help to re-establish arlington as the logical summer stopover for some of the bigger and more high profile barns. Certainly anyone based at Keeneland or Turfway.

Look for an announcement on AP very soon.

1) how did this get moved back to the Paddock

2) I am going to shoot myself in the nuts if Arlington goes Polytrack

Looks like Kasept is playing with this toy, no more Polytrack room

Within 5 years almost all tracks will be poly of some sort. Bye Bye nuts!

yeah, I am thinking I shouldn't have said that. I am going to have to wear a mask when I go to the track now.....I can't wait till some kid puts that crap in his mouth, so hilarious

Kasept is playing with his toy! Now that is news!

Better get some bullet proof underwear. Supposedly a big announcement by AP tomorrow at the ESPN Zone in Chicago.

JJP, where you hear this at?

A friend of mine who's an owner. Then I see somebody on Barntowire said they received an e-mail from Arlington's PR department that a big announcement would be made tomorrow morning.

with the breakdowns they had its no wonder.....funny in the last 5 years i dont recall that many..

Cannon, How do you feel about polytrack? Have you trained on it at all?

http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/story.asp?id=257297

There is a blatant mistake in this article. They say Street Sense won the Breeders Cup Juvenile on Keeneland's Polytrack. We all know the BC was run at CD, not Kee, and he ran 3rd in the Breeders Futurity on Kee's carpet.

yeah, poly like crazy at Arlington

HAHA, more importantly they claim his name is "Street Smarts."

I have trained over it since last september 05 with mostly positive results. There was no way that I would have ever considered training at Turfway prior to the polytrack being installed there. The old track was terrible. I believe that I have personally had pretty good numbers over the poly so I guess I cant complain too much. The best feature other than ability to train through rainy weather is consistency. Pretty much you are training over the same surface everyday. I know about the kickback problems that we had at TP and the problems at Woodbine and HP but I think that much of this is due to human error as the track supers are training on the job in dealing with the surface. The biggest thing that they have to learn is that they have to deal with poly almost completely differently than a convential track. So it is a learning process for everyone. As far as injuries, it seems as though they have been reduced in my barn but its not like sore horses magically become sound overnight as some would have you believe. Eventually a sore horse will improve over poly but if the issues are related to conformation, they are still gonna have problems. Like it or not I think that the majority of dirt tracks will eventually go poly if not simply because breakdowns are going to occur and if a track has a big horse in a big race breakdown, the pressure to go poly will be severe. And tracks seem to cave in at the slightest bit of bad pub nowdays.

well unfortunately arlington had alot more than the slightest bit of bad pub as youd say here but rightfully so with all the horses going down here this past meet. arlington was on the news almost every single night and talked about often on the radio. with the horse racing columns basically eliminated from the sun times a couple years back its about the only publicity racing locally has gotten other than on million and ILL derby day