How is it possible...

[Cannon Shell]

http://www.paulickreport.com/wp-cont...bhscn00022.pdf

Under the heading of Injury reporting and prevention
1. Racing Surfaces
a. Benchmark safety of all surfaces and/or mandatory switch to syntheitc surfaces

I dont want to go through the paper on a point by point basis and some of it is positive but are they serious about the racing surface thing? How exactly can you measure the safety of a surface? And when was the consensus reached that synthetic surfaces are signifigantly safer than others? there is no question that a synthetic surface is better under really wet conditions but how many days does that really effect? I am sure that there are other conditions where they are no better or safer. Mandatory anything is always troublesome without absolutes.

I also was amused by the proposed ban on races of more than 14 horses. That has been a real issue in recent times...