Re: Drugs and Modern Sports (611 Views)
Posted by:
miff (IP Logged)
Date: September 17, 2006 10:47AM
Tony,
I understand your feelings re poly but I won't be betting on that surface until I am very comfortable. That may never happen.I've posted before but believe me there are many whales that will NOT be putting their money on poly racing.
NYRA is the only venue that I know which is carefully navigating the poly issue.The excuse about safety is more a ruse by racetrack operators. Breakdowns will be far less if they stop allowing animals to be pumped full of illegal stuff that gives them a utopian feeling as they rip their bodies up without sensing it.
If poly can be made to mirror dirt somehow, then it would be ok. I don't know if that's possible or even being contemplated.Many horsemen have told me that they just don't know how a horse will hit, plant, expand on that stuff. Horsemen who have trained and raced on it give it a thumbs up and some love it.
Mike