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Originally Posted by keithw84
Weren't Zenyatta's connections critical of Pro Ride? I thought I had read that somewhere.
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http://www.insidesocal.com/horseraci...like-runn.html
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But guess what? Shirreffs hates the synthetics tracks. He always has, and probably always will.
"I'm more into developing young horses, and I find that young horses really don't like training on synthetic surfaces," he said. "Synthetic surfaces are like training on Velcro, where the horse's foot lands and it doesn't slide, it just sticks to the ground. Depending upon how synthetic the surface is, they can't rotate their foot into the track and push off. So if you can imagine running along flat-footed all the time without getting up on your toes and pushing off, I think that's probably about how it would feel to a human."
