Woodbine Information

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I Wish other tracks would follow Woodbines Lead and release this type of information to the public.

This would have been really relavant to the different threads that have been around here lately on Polytrack.

This is an excerpt from an Article in the DRF

However, Taylor said that the results from Woodbine prior to the Polytrack installation were highly unusual.

"We typically average about 15 to 20 catastrophic breakdowns a year" during Woodbine's nine-month meet, he said. "So this year, prior to the Polytrack, the numbers were really light. I hate to say this, but, statistically, we were due."

Taylor said that examinations of the horses that broke down over the Polytrack had indicated that the horses may have had pre-existing conditions that rendered them vulnerable.


the last paragraph is quite interesting if you read between the lines the horses that broke down were more than likely Not very sound to Start with

Originally Posted by Round Pen

I Wish other tracks would follow Woodbines Lead and release this type of information to the public.

This would have been really relavant to the different threads that have been around here lately on Polytrack.

This is an excerpt from an Article in the DRF

However, Taylor said that the results from Woodbine prior to the Polytrack installation were highly unusual.

"We typically average about 15 to 20 catastrophic breakdowns a year" during Woodbine's nine-month meet, he said. "So this year, prior to the Polytrack, the numbers were really light. I hate to say this, but, statistically, we were due."

Taylor said that examinations of the horses that broke down over the Polytrack had indicated that the horses may have had pre-existing conditions that rendered them vulnerable.


the last paragraph is quite interesting if you read between the lines the horses that broke down were more than likely Not very sound to Start with

LOL!! And you don't think thats the cause of most breakdowns on dirt? I fail to see the difference.

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Oracle I know that and you know that but most people who go to the races do not.