Any improvements towards safety should not rest solely on the racing surface.
Improvements to the starting gate has long been overlooked.

For those of us who watch the head-on replays of the starts,
it's laughable that absolutely nothing was done
after Barbaro "gate breakthrough" in the Preakness
only to reload and severly injure himself on National Television.

It's only a matter of time before the gate comes into play
in another major televised race.

Sad but true.