Re: Another View of Modern Racing From Bobby Trussell (559 Views)
Posted by:
fkach (IP Logged)
Date: October 04, 2007 02:00PM
TGJB,
You are going to have to take my word on this. Back in the 70s I used to take a look at the chart with cushion depths every time I went to the track trying to find correlations between that and rail biases (never found much and stopped). I can't recall any of the specifics, but the cushion wasn't nearly as deep then as it is now at the NYRA tracks.
On the flip side, since we know that moisture is also an issue in this, I wonder whether more frequent watering, a higher average moisture content, and rolling, floating etc... are having offsetting impacts on both speed and the hardness of the tracks????