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Synthetic shippers
With the new season at Tampa Bay Downs getting into the swing of things, we're obviously getting a lot of summer shippers down to Florida for the winter meet.
We've got a lot of young horses shipping in and many of them have never run in Tampa. I've noticed there are quite a few horses that are coming down from Presque which have never raced on turf or dirt.
I've found a decent amount of research from a few years back when poly tracks were just getting installed discussing the merits of various dirt-to-poly or turf-to-poly angles, but very little regarding the opposite.
I'm keeping an eye on it this meet to formulate my own opinion regarding "poly only"-to-Tampa shippers, but is there any consensus regarding evaluating past performances on poly to a race being run on dirt/turf for the first time for a particular horse?
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