Here is a great article about synthetic surfaces. There are long interviews with all different people in the industry giving their opinion on synthetic surfaces. They interview everyone from Dr. Rick Arthur to Bob Baffert to Andy Beyer and many more. This article gives you a fair and balanced view. Some of the people interviewed like synthetic surfaces and other don't. But most of these people admit that there are both positives and negatives to having a synthetic surface. Here is the link:
http://www.marylandthoroughbred.com/...ad_article.htm