Keeneland returning to dirt

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Another inconvenient truth for the synthetic crowd is that the circuit which concerted the most effort in making its dirt safer -- NYRA -- got drastically fewer breakdowns in 2013. AQU went from 3.41 fatalities per 1,000 dirt starts to 1.85. BEL went from 1.86 to 0.88. SAR had a slight uptick from 1.23 to 1.29, but that has the smallest sample size of the three tracks.

Exactly!

You can make dirt safer, or riskier. Same as any surface.

People who believe that synth is inherently safer than dirt are looking at this issue too simplistically.