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07-28-2008, 10:11 AM
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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... 
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07-28-2008, 11:13 AM
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On the topic of changing track speeds, here's an interesting presentation by Jerry Brown (Thorograph) from the 2004 Handicappers Expo which essentially states the the speed of racetracks actually change from race to race most of the time because the moisture content of the track only stays consistent if water is added at the same rate that it's evaporating. This is almost impossible as the moisture content is affected by everything from wind, temperature, humidity, sun, track maintanence, how often the water truck comes through etc. Thus, the speed of a fast track with unchanged weather conditions can actually vary quite a bit over the course of an afternoon. It's an interesting presentation for those interested who are figure-oriented.
http://www.thorograph.com/archive/fi...slide_show.ppt
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