Re: Beyer on Polytrack (521 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: April 16, 2007 09:33PM
Imallin:
As to the kickback on dirt surfaces discouraging horses running from off
the pace, are you saying that a single horse on the lead, who leads a race from
gate to wire, creates enough kickback to discourage ALL the other horses in the
race?
My read of Beyer's article was that he was not unhappy with synthetic
surfaces in general, but rather with the way the surface at Keeneland plays.
And he did point out that the handle at Keeneland has not been hurt by
Polytrack. Trainers are not afraid to run their horses on this surface, and
horseplayers have not been scared off by this new surface.
In the end if horsemen and horseplayers are happy, it doesn't matter what
a curmudgeonly figure maker/columnist thinks.