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Originally Posted by oracle80
I don't think you are getting what I hold to be true.
Its not the bias or lack of one that I dislike, far from it. I love closing biases on dirt tracks, its easier to score with one of those.
But I truly don't think the majority of horses run their best on it. In a race like the one with Jump and Miss, I think the time will show you that noone particularly loved it. If it was a surface where some just loved it, that would be fine as well. But i don't see that. I see figs crashing by as many as 5 horses in the same race, which eliminates the notion that one or two just didnt fire for other reasons than the surface.
Hard to convince me that day in and day out when 3-6 horses in a race don't run a fig commensurate with their ability, that horses just aren't firing on it.
I think many of these races go to the horse who dislikes it the least. That I have a problem with. Lack of a bias I don't have a problem with.
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Well,if jocks start saying that their horses aren't getting ahold of it(like so many said at Churchill on BC DAY,) then I can understand what you are saying.I don't think it is the case.Jump made a nice move(seemed to like the track when she kicked clear huh?,) but she got tired going 7f.Not a surprise that a filly chasing a 44'3 gets a little late.We all know ot is a difficult distance for youngsters to get if they go too fast,and thanks to Mr. Solis' horse,they went too fast.That surface is about a full second slower than the previous dirt track.That is why you don't see anybody else going a 44'3 on that track (in the other races yesterday.) Your assuming they didn't like the track.Everything I have heard is contrary to that.I am not seeing interviews with jocks saying their horse hated the track.They like it.Sure,some would find it easier to win on a harder surface.They can better stretch their speed out on that,but speed horses are winning on the cushion( they are earning it though.)I think the better horses are not getting as tired.It doesn't mean the horses that they pass didn't handle the surface.If you have heard interviews about jocks saying their horse couldn't handle the surface,then please let me know.Nakatani(for instance)said that Jump "did get tired," and that she will do better next time.He didn't say she didn't like it.That's an assumption you are making when horses are getting tired,and so far it has not been backed up by those riding,and training the horses.