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Old 03-03-2018, 04:54 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by dilanesp View Post
At Del Mar fatal breakdowns went way down when they went to Poly and way back up when they switched back:

http://www.animals24-7.org/2016/08/2...-track-record/

Now, Del Mar thankfully had a better year in 2017 and we hope it continues. But the evidence of the safety of the synthetics was obvious.

The Jockey Club did a quasi official study that showed they are safer too:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/0...ww.google.com/
All the synthetic tracks were new, all the dirt tracks were very old. If they tore out the dirt tracks and rebuilt from scratch would we see the same results?
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