While all attention should be looking at the one that may truly be a GREAT horse in the 3 year old crop of 2014 — UNTAPABLE.   Instead we have teh distraction that is Del Mar and California racing with their inability to get things correct the first time.  Finally, they are getting rid  of this atrocity “all weather” track (at the end of the season) and now they have to close the Turf course — fearing that it’s causing many catastrophic breakdowns.     I truly hope that the turf course is okay and we are just witnessing a statistical apparition that is seriously disturbing.

But I think — common sense – needs to be realized at this time, that slower racing surfaces may be safer surfaces.   It’s my experience that fewer breakdowns occur when the track is just not so glib, just figure it out, weight x speed = FORCE.   You can easily reduce the FORCE that horses absorb by slowing down the speed of the courses, main track and turf!  It’s not hard to figure — it just seems to be hard to do…

Last comment, if you see a horse run an 82.5 on the Power Page, you know that horse is really fast, does it really matter if the 82.5 was accomplished in 107 4/5 or in 108 4/5…  To be more on point, does anyone really think that Big Casanova is faster then Zenyatta.  I know that Zenyatt earned a 81.5 when she ran the track record at Del Mar, now Big Casanova is doubtful for running a PPN of higher than 76.5, yet he now has the track record at Del Mar over Zenyatta.   It’s simply a function of how tired that synthetic is and how much faster the track is now than when Zenyatta did her best running a few years ago…

To my final comment, records are not necessarily made to be broken, and sure there are more homers hit today, but there are also more strikeouts in the era when the ball goes further and the fences are closer….