Re: Beyer on Polytrack (623 Views)
Posted by:
bobphilo (IP Logged)
Date: February 28, 2006 04:44PM
Good question about Turfway, asfufh. You'd have to ask them why they don't water it enough. Polytrack has been in use for years at various English tracks and I've yet to hear anything about a problem with dust clouds. I suspect a maintanence problem. You mention the negative publicity from any health problems caused by Polytrack. It is for that very reason - bad publicity - that California is mandating Polytrack because all the breakdowns of horses on their dirt surfaces are hurting the game - not to mention what it'd doing to the horses going down and their riders. It's not like all injuries will stop while we delay with indicision over something that there is no evidence of causing harm. We have to have something to race on. Why not on something that has been proven to save lives over something we know is dangerous. We go with what has been proven at that point.
Bob
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