Re: Beyer on Polytrack (571 Views)
Posted by:
bobphilo (IP Logged)
Date: February 28, 2006 03:14PM
HP,
By post position advantage I was refering to the possibility of being caught on a dead rail if you draw inside or unlikely to get to a live rail if you draw outside. It's an issue of uniformity of the rcing surface.
Beyer himself says that Turfway was notoriously speed favoring before Polytrack and no such clear bias has been evident since - at least not yet.
California did not mandate Polytrck for it's all weather properties. It was more concerned with the high rate of injuries and breakdowns on it's hard dirt surfaces.
Bob