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Originally Posted by rastajenk
Are we sure that's accurate? Keeneland's meet is so short that a "spike" would be quite noticeable, and I don't remember anything like that. Turfway, with whom they were associated at the time, did it because of the weather; I think Keeneland did it for the p.r. of getting out ahead of the situation.
I forget Arlington's situation; it may have had a bad stretch before it made a change.
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I can't recall if Keeneland had breakdowns, but the original dirt track was probably the most inside speed biased track in the country, to the point of absurdity. It played like a half mile harness track. I think that probably had something to do with the changeover.