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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
While I am still on the fence about Polytrack, because honestly I do think it is too early to make a defintive judgement, I do think that races like The Spinster still deserve their grading. It was definitely a grade 1 quality race with Happy Ticket, Spun Sugar, et al. Now, I will say the bias that has been so prevelant there is troublesome to me, but the old Keeneland had a pretty definitive bias as well. I also think the surface they are putting in at Hollywood is different than the poly. It is a synthetic surface, but they are all not the same, so it will be interesting to see if form on the poly transfers to the Holly Park surface, or Dickinson's Tapeta that is being installed at Golden Gate. Now, while I agree that Asi Siempre probably wouldn't have been in the Spinster had it been on anything other than Poly, and I give her no shot in the BC if she goes, she is a quality mare. Stakes type filly at the least. As far as the Blue Grass goes, why should it lose it's status? What if it draws a stellar field? I just think it's too early. The Spinster still could end up being an important race if Happy Ticket, who had a good deal of trouble in the race, or Spun Sugar, or even Asi Siempre, were to come back and win the Distaff. What if the Blue Grass winner, or a horse that ran in the Blue Grass wins the Derby. I would say it would still be an important prep. Races are graded usually by the quality of horse flesh that the race attracts, not what surface it's on. What would you have graded the Spinster?
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oh,
the Spinster field certainly made it worthy of its grade 1 status.
but look at the winner.
and the top dirt horses that were off the board.
total reversal of form.
I think after a year or 2 of this, trainers will make the adjustment and determine that the Spinster(and other races) is no place to prep a really good dirt horse for a Grade 1 dirt race like the BC Distaff.
it would be like sending Sun King to the Hirsch to prepare for the BC Classic.
makes no sense.
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