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Originally Posted by MaTH716
I don't think people are against the development of these surfaces (especially in areas where weather coule be an extreme issue, ie Turfway park). But when they are forced fed to people with very little or no trial data as in the case with California, is where the problem lies. All of a sudden you had every track on a major circuit changed for no reason because a few people thought it was better. Then throw into the mix the probelms (especially Santa Anita) that the tracks had with their new surfaces.
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I think California turned out to be more "extreme" than Turfway, weather- and use-wise. And you most obviously can't lump the performance of the different surfaces together, even in CA.