From people racing in California:

The poly track at Hollywood got substantially tighter/faster during cool days and raw times were faster.During hot humid days poly got cuppy and slower and produced slowish raw times.

This seems to fit what Jerry found although he did not say if he deduced this from observation of figs or some other way.Is poly simply contracting in cold and expanding in heat? What does water and wind do to poly. What does track maintenance do to poly.

Tough for me to gamble on that surface right now.Almost all the players I know are being "carried out" at poly venues.A very sharp and successful TG sheet player in California spoke of "too many chaotic results" including slower horses outrunning much faster runners all to often.I have certainly seen slower runners on dirt tracks have their day but not consistently over an entire meet.

The last thing I read was that certain "nickel" bred horses were outrunning royally bred horses over a sampling of 4000 poly runners.I think that may be a statistical oddity more than anything else but who knows.


Mike




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2006 03:12PM by miff.