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Originally Posted by The Bid
Rupe, I disagree with you.
The kickback on the dirt is nowhere near as bad as the kickback the horses face on synthetic, especially when its cold out. Watch a race at TWP in the evenings when the horses cock their heads and refuse to run through the kickback. Keeneland they go 10 wide to stay out of the kickback, and SA they were hockey visors. I would say the kickback is not only worse with the synthetic, its not even close.
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I think I got a possible answer. The kickback on syn. looks especially bad from a sand point of view. Hard sand coming at 40 mph (relative velocity as the horse is moving usually a little less than 40 and the kickback is moving much slower but in the opposite direction the horse is going) might sting a heck of a lot. The syn. stuff is very bouncy and the sand really seems to pop up.
I totally agree with Rup about dirt clod kickback, especially on the track I frequent. If the moisture level is right, clods are produced and those hurt like hell. Any jock will tell you that at this dirt track. They do their best to reduce the size of the clods on grooming after each race, but then the horse impacts the mixture and this again compacts the dirt/sand mixture into clods DURING the race.
But of course I think very little about this stuff and know absolutely nothing. I am only a golf course expert... didnt know that, but what the hell.