Track Condition Must Keep Open Mind

[Crown@club]

Here's a short story written by Cliff Guilliams (race writer out of Churchill) listed in Sunday's Evansville Courier

"It was humorous the other night watching TVG. An uninformed announcer bellowed that all sources betting on Turfway Park’s winter/spring was up 69 percent, all because of polytrack. He probably didn’t know, and didn’t mention that during the previous year, Turfway lost 14 racing days to poor weather. And, when other tracks cancelled, Turfway was one of the few still open.

They keep saying how few catastrophic breakdowns happen on the synthetic stuff. They never, however, tell you how many were vanned off, which the official charts attempt to report.

Check the equine ambulance log on that figure. Hope they don’t have to rip the stuff up in a couple of years."

Interesting!!!!!

I think it is clear the stuff was put in so that race days would not be lost. 14 days is a huge amount of money. As far as racing and injuries we will have to see. But the large number of trainers that really like training on it tells me its probably pretty safe also.