Synthetic at Belmont inside the Inner

[philcski]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Pletcher suggested it yesterday. Put a synthetic inside the inner at Belmont that could be used for training and then potentially you could move off the turf races to it down the line which would drastically reduce scratches. Maybe eventually there will even be demand to card races on all three surfaces. Looks like a mile or mile and a sixteenth oval would fit in there. What do people think? I think it's a good compromise, much better than replacing the main track. While I much prefer capping dirt or turf to synthetics if a race gets taken off the turf late I'd much prefer it go on synthetic than onto the dirt.

...and eventually winter racing there as well. I think it's a reasonably good idea.

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

My problem with this, and it's been mentioned before is races will come off the turf much more I think. Look at Keeneland, they NEVER took races off the turf and they do a lot more know.

I'm not sure that's true, but Keeneland has a great turf course for draining from what i've been told so they can handle a lot more rain than the NY courses (especially Belmont)...