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05-07-2008, 02:47 PM
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Location: NYC
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Here we go! NY Synthetic Track Forum to be held.
I work for/with NYRA and confirm there will be nyra employees in attendance.
http://www.saratogian.com/WebApp/app..._Story_2007567
Last edited by fouroneone; 05-07-2008 at 02:51 PM.
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05-07-2008, 02:52 PM
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velocitician
Join Date: Aug 2004
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PR band aids won't change the root causes: drugs, breeding speed to speed.
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05-07-2008, 03:03 PM
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Location: New Jersey
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Wow ! That would be a disaster for me. AQU is my "home" track for 6 months out of the year. It's the most profitable track I play.
Here's another article on the same topic :
http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news?slug=ap-nyra-syntheticsurface&prov=ap&type=lgns
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05-07-2008, 03:11 PM
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Hopefully Nick Zito and Barclay Tagg will at least be allowed to air their concerns at this forum. Invitations for the latest discussion amongst horsemen in California were only sent to those who have been vocally supportive of the synthetic revolution. Trainers who have raied concerns, such as John Sadler, John Shirrefs, Jack Van Berg and Bob Baffert, were told they need not attend, at least according to an article I read through a link in Steve Crist' blog.
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05-07-2008, 04:28 PM
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05-07-2008, 05:01 PM
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Location: NY USA
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NYRA has the best dirt in the world
Let us hope they do not ruin the New York tracks with the synthetic surfaces. NYRA is one of the few track operators that have the ability and knowledge to maintain safe dirt tracks. New York does not have the same same of incompetence that California and Keeneland displayed in maintaining their dirt surface. There is no need to replace the tracks in New York.
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05-07-2008, 06:17 PM
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maximan
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: So Cal
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NYRA Synthetics
Charles Hayward has already been quoted as saying he would entertain Aqueduct as the first of the NYRA tracks to put in a synthetic surface on the Main track, and converting the Inner Dirt track to a One Mile Turf Course.
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05-07-2008, 06:22 PM
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Location: New York
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Originally Posted by samyn on the green
Let us hope they do not ruin the New York tracks with the synthetic surfaces. NYRA is one of the few track operators that have the ability and knowledge to maintain safe dirt tracks. New York does not have the same same of incompetence that California and Keeneland displayed in maintaining their dirt surface. There is no need to replace the tracks in New York.
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Seeing how things are going latley, I think we are the last generation to actually see dirt races. Even if the non-dirt tracks don't prevent all injurys, a lot of people say they reduce them. By 2020-2030 you will probably see no dirt racetracks left.
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05-07-2008, 07:37 PM
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Will horseplayers get a say? After all, they are the ones paying the bills.
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05-07-2008, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Imriledup
Will horseplayers get a say? After all, they are the ones paying the bills.
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Horseplayers have the ultimate say. If you bet at a polycrap track, you are saying it's o.k. If you don't bet at polycrap tracks, then you are saying you don't approve. Then we can see whose voice is louder, the polycrap purveyors and supporters or the horseplayers.
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05-07-2008, 08:42 PM
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If NY installs Polycrap, I'm done.
John
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05-07-2008, 10:38 PM
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This is an erroneous report.
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05-07-2008, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ny0707ny
Seeing how things are going latley, I think we are the last generation to actually see dirt races. Even if the non-dirt tracks don't prevent all injurys, a lot of people say they reduce them. By 2020-2030 you will probably see no dirt racetracks left.
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At the rate we're going we'll be lucky if we're racing at all . By 2030 , horses will be hard pressed to have a good leg to stand on , if other issues haven't already closed everything down . 
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05-07-2008, 11:24 PM
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Not for nothing but seems like a great idea, then we could have a chance of 9 and 10 horses in most of the races all winter, sounds good to me..... time to get in the 21st century New York 
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05-08-2008, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Norm
Horseplayers have the ultimate say. If you bet at a polycrap track, you are saying it's o.k. If you don't bet at polycrap tracks, then you are saying you don't approve. Then we can see whose voice is louder, the polycrap purveyors and supporters or the horseplayers.
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THAT's the attitude horse players need! ATTABOY, Norm!!
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