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Originally Posted by The Bid
As a trainer would you rather have a good conventional dirt surface like the Oklahoma track, or Poly
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Oklahoma aint what it used to be. Personally I have found that almost all of the tracks that I train at have moved in the wrong direction. Tampa is way harder than it used to be, used to be the best surface to train on but there were just mostly **** horses there so no one knew. Churchill added too much clay and now is awful when wet. Pre poly Keeneland was like training on a minefield. Belmont is bad when it rains. Saratoga main track has way too many breakdowns on it for me, especially considering the quality of horses there (but it may be against the law in the Peoples Republic of NY to say anything negative about Saratoga), Gulfstream sucks but you cant say that or frank gets mad, never trained at Palm Meadows, Hialeah was always good but gone noe, Fair Grounds is pretty good but not as good as it was (but they get the Katrina pass for right now) complaining about the surfaces at Monmouth is required in order to get a license in NJ, Delaware has a horrible reputation