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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: November 16, 2004 01:47PM
If I start dealing with every point everyone makes I will get even less work done today than yesterday, and again, it would be nice if everyone read carefully the original series in the archives-- you could see what the scientists in England came up with, for example.
But just a note on CD-- as I said, I would like to know exactly what the super was asked, and what he said. As I mentioned in the series, there are a number of things that have been changed at the NYRA tracks-- depth of cushion, depth (and material) used for the base, and soil content (notably percentage of sand and clay). From what I have been told, that percentage was also changed at least once and possibly as many as 3 times at CD over the last 15 years or so. And from what I've been told virtually all tracks have a higher sand content than those of the 70's and 80's, which will slow times down when the tracks are dry. Those of us who were playing horses back then remember that when it rained, tracks would get MUCH slower, and stay that way for days as they dried out-- you don't see those soupy tracks any more, and the reason is the percentage of sand.
TGJB