Re: Synthetic Surfaces and New York Racing (487 Views)
Posted by:
miff (IP Logged)
Date: July 25, 2007 05:20PM
Paul,
The animal loons that I refer to are not animal lovers, they are people who put animals BEFORE the human element. Incidentally, there is no data to confirm that a horse who breaks down on dirt would not have on Poly. Thats a myth from the track managers who do not want to ban/reduce drug use or have super testing(very expensive).Poly is strictly an economic thing for the disingenious race track managers who could care less about the horses and only about their bottom line.
In your poly endeavors you may wish to know ( from a good jockey riding at del mar) that some jocks are NOT persevering with horse getting "late" because the stewards are too stupid to comprehend the exhaustion level the horses are feeling at Del Mar,so far. They are putting up lots of inquiries(it's because of the swerving that many horses are experiencing late in the races)Good luck!!
Mike