All Weather track thought could this work

Round Pen · #1 05-29-2008, 06:17 PM

I was thinking about this the other night and I am not sure that this is even a viable option. Lets Take Aqueduct for instance I think this could be the perfect place to maybe implement this thought. Why could you not take the inner track and turn it into one of the All weather surfaces that is out there. and Leave the main track as it is. That way in th Dead of winter u could strickly use the all weather surface. But here is my thought as the weather breaks why could you not card races on both the main track and the all weather track. that way horsemen could have the best of both worlds. As you guys know there are trainer's out there that love the artifical stuff and others who would like to stick to the traditional dirt surface. PLus the benefit in the AM training you could have the choice of training on either surface.

PLus turf races when taken off the lawn would have the option of MAin track or All Weather. Another advantage if you had a main track that has had a tremedous amount of rain and is very sloppy, muddy they could be switched to the All weather track.

Anythoughts out there could this possibly work or is it just a pipe dream

SniperSB23 · #2 05-29-2008, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Round Pen

Anythoughts out there could this possibly work or is it just a pipe dream

It could work and I imagine will be implemented somewhere in the near future.

ateamstupid · #3 05-29-2008, 06:52 PM

Sounds like a cluster**** waiting to happen, but at least someone is thinking outside of the box on this issue. If that ever happened, personally I would hope they wouldn't alternate races between main and AWT. That would make multi-race wagers impossible for those of us who choose not to bet on AWT races.

jwkniska · #4 05-29-2008, 06:54 PM

It makes perfect sense..... which unfortunately may be a problem.

The only problem I could see is that you need a different mix of the synthetic based on whether you're running on it in the cold (like AQ would) vs. when you'd take a grass race off after the weather breaks.
If you don't use the correct mix, it balls up in the horse's hooves, making it like running on a skating rink.