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track. "But we’d just rehab them, and get them jogging and ready to go back (to speed work, in preparation for a race) before sending them back (to the track and their trainer).
“But now, with the polytrack, we can offer training right up to being ready to run. Horses really like this surface, and none of them have had trouble going from training on the synthetic surface to racing on a regular sand track.” None of the midAtlantic racetracks - such as nearby Charles Town, Laurel or Colonial Downs, has installed a synthetic racing surface yet.
"The poly-surface is so forgiving to their joints. They seem to blossom on it,” McClure said.
That truth to that was proven in 1998 when English expatriate Michael Dickenson put the first polytrack in the U.S. at his Tapeta farm in Maryland. Dickenson trained 1996 Breeders’ Cup winner Da Hoss, a famously unsound horse, to win the Breeders’ Cup in *98 from training alone. The horse had a a two-year layoff due to injury (on a standard dirt track) and came back for the Cup win strictly from training on the synthetic surface.
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