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Originally Posted by Alacrity
Well after a few years of sampling the injuries and whatnot...it does appear synthetics are safer than dirt and do save horses lives which was the point of them being brought to America. Dirt was the only thing being used in the 1900s because our technology wasn't nearly as good as it is now. Now...we have all the tools to make a safer track for the horses and eventually thats going to win out. What I think they should do is after so many years...see what synthetic surface is the safest and use that at every track.
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If I recall back in 2005 when Turfway decided to go Polytrack, it originally had nothing to do with safety. It was due to their main track freezing during their winter meet, and they would have too many cancellations. It wasn't until AFTER the first meet was concluded they realized that the inaugural meet had less breakdowns. I also have heard that while some types of injuries are down, soft tissue injuries are up.
