I didn't have Big Brown on top of any of my tickets, but did make some place money on the filly. I'll provide a roundup of my posts later, but for now I don't have anything new to offer.
No one is looking forward to the pro-synthetic propaganda that will come out of this or the idea that some might argue that racing a a filly against colts is inherently dangerous -- so it was nice to see both Dr. Bramlage and Larry Jones address those issues. This accident could have happened on grass, dirt or Polytrack -- I hope that the mainstream media who aren't used to covering racing don't let that fact slip through the cracks.
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I really don't get the cavalier dismissal of synthetic surfaces as potentially safer for horses.
The jury is still out, sure, and guys like Baffert and Shirreffs and Zito don't like them, but plenty of other respected horsemen do, so let's keep looking at it with an open mind.
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