Polytrack and TG Figures

[NoCarolinaTony]

Jerry or Alan,

Any early feedback you can give us on the relationship of Figures you are generating for Turfway as compared to past? I know it\'s a little early on in the game but you do have a stakes day with Horses that have established form and who have run both on old Turfway or on other surfaces with established records.

Michael D\'s observation on seeing how  well Turf Horses were performing and competeing with Dirt Runners on that surface surface was an excellent one. What have been your overall assessment of that surface as it correlates to prior form etc.

A little edge here or there can go a long way to help fatten our Wallets.  

NC Tony

[TGJB]

Funny you should mention this, since I was just doing a TP day and talking to Alan about it. I don\'t know what \"type\" of horse will run well there (some grass horses have, too soon to tell what it means), but I\'ll tell you this for a fact-- they claim nothing changes that track, which would make it easy for others to make figures for it, and that ain\'t true. It DEFINITELY has changed speed, and not just from day to day, within days, quite a bit. There probably is something you could correlate it with-- heat, humidity, direct sunshine, something-- but it\'s moving around quite a bit. Which is a very good thing.

[sighthound]

Hey, guess explains the TP $19K 10-cent super

In the current Bloodhorse issue cover article, it was mentioned that it takes a while to \"establish\" before consistency is observed - but then Collins described Del Mar\'s interest in Polytrack thusly:  

\"What we\'re hoping for is (a surface) to put up with the four seasons.\"  \"Del Mar would be a completely different thing.  They have longer sunshine, so the surface would require more wax.  At Turfway, the fiber is better than the fiber (on the training track) at Keeneland.  The rubber is also different, and we used a different grade of sand.\"

\"You never get two Polytrack surfaces the same\".