Why is it harder to win gate-to-wire on turf?
One of the characters ask this question to Johnny V on the last show of Horseplayers, I believe. His answer didn’t make sense to me, I don’t remember exactly what he said (maybe someone here does) , but I remember his answer didn’t satisfy me.
So why do you think that it’s harder to wire the field on turf? I had always thought that you had to be more careful when running on grass. An analogy I can think of is that suppose one is running on a sandy beach. If you try as hard as you can right off the bat, you will dig up sand , it will be more tiring, and you will waste energy(i.e., “spinning your wheels”) , and therefore be more tired at the end. So you have to more careful when running your horse on grass, for the same reason – don’t burn him out trying get to the lead. No? Ok, so what is it? Or is this just an old wives tale(and maybe it's not harder).
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