Anyone picking up on racing trends at Saratoga so far ?

[azeri98]

Originally Posted by cj

And how has that worked out for Gulfstream.

Would you prefer a few scratches in a turf race from lets say from 12 to 10 or do you enjoy the status quo of 12 going down to 5 or six and switching to dirt?

[Sheffwed]

Originally Posted by azeri98

Those were all sold for land development, not because they had a synthetic track. What about Hialeah, Suffolk Downs, Calder, Beulah, Portland Meadows and Sportsmans Park. Now maybe Turf Paradise. Did they close because they had synthetic tracks?

the anti-Tapeta folks don't have a leg to stand on, other than their own personal preferences/bias towards dirt racing, which is arguably unsupportable, and largely isolated to the United States approach to racing

one would assume that at some point there will be pressure to make progress on all the fronts that deviate from making racing as safe for horses as possible

so is the equally unsupportable issue of making jockeys race at obscene weights for their size, but that's another story