Buying 2yr olds off Polytrack works

#1 07-17-2007, 04:03 PM

I am curious if anyone here buys 2yr olds at the sales. It seems at Keeneland the 2yr olds 1/4 and 1/8th of a mile times run over polytrack were ridiculously fast back in April. One went in 20 1/5 which is crazy. .

How can somebody buy a 2yr old off works off of the polytrack? A horse could work great over it and the dirt or work poorly over it and love the dirt.

Does Keeneland plan on continuing to work 2yr olds only on the polytrack or has anyone heard where they might have dirt works and poly works?

jwkniska · #2 07-17-2007, 04:30 PM

from what I know of, both Kee's main and training track are poly, so they don't even have a dirt track. Also, with most of the other tracks going to some sort of synthetic in the future, if they don't have them already, I wouldn't expect them to do much with dirt works.

Cannon Shell · #3 07-17-2007, 04:57 PM

Calder and OBS both roll their tracks so tight on the breeze show days that they are unlike what a horse would run over too.

Swap Fliparoo · #4 07-17-2007, 05:09 PM

Yes, Kee's training track went Poly about a year before their main track. The composition is somewhat different... training track looks darker/blacker with rubber bits. Main track has a lot of wire casings, which are lighter and resemble rainbow sprinkles... very odd up close.

jwkniska · #5 07-17-2007, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Swap Fliparoo

Yes, Kee's training track went Poly about a year before their main track. The composition is somewhat different... training track looks darker/blacker with rubber bits. Main track has a lot of wire casings, which are lighter and resemble rainbow sprinkles... very odd up close.

AP's is the same way and I agree it's very odd up close to see all the different color rubber bits, etc that are wax coated.

Swap Fliparoo · #6 07-17-2007, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jwkniska

AP's is the same way and I agree it's very odd up close to see all the different color rubber bits, etc that are wax coated.

I have also found the odd chunk of sneaker - literally the bottom of a Nike, you could still see the logo.

Round Pen · #7 07-18-2007, 10:47 AM

get use to it OBS is closing there track down in the next few weeks to install a sythetic surface it will be finished by mid Novemeber. So next year all there sales will be held over a Synthetic surface and they sale somewhere between 2 to 3,000 horses per year at there 2 year old in training sales.