Amazing how those that say we are rushing to convert to Poly are themselves rushing to judgment based on some wrong comparisons and very insignificant figures.

Lets look at the numbers correctly. During the 2004-5 winter meet at Turfway there were 24 catastrophic breakdowns on the old surface. After the installation of Polytrack for the 2005-6 winter meet the number of catastrophic breakdowns dropped to only 3.
During the last winter meet the number of such breakdowns slightly increased by 2 to a total of 5 after track management monkeyed with the surface to make it more dirt-like in it’s speed favoring properties.

The conclusion is clearly that Poly greatly reduced catastrophic breakdowns compared to dirt in winter racing and later attempts to alter the surface slightly reduced the tracks safety.

Bob