Synthetic tracks are relatively new and it might not be fair to compare numbers from a new surface to a track that owns a 100 year old dirt course. More Eighth Pole: How I got into horse racing ...

Hooves hit Keeneland's new dirt surface Thursday morning for the first time, as about 10 horses tested the combination of sand, silt and clay installed this summer on the 1 1/16-mile main track.

The dirt surface will be a sand, clay and silt mixture that was picked after Thomason said their team examined "hundreds" of quarries in the region and consulted with noted track specialist Dr ...

Statistics from The Jockey Club's Equine Injury Database show the surface with the fewest deaths per 1,000 horses is synthetic.. From 2009-2022, there were 534 fatalities on synthetic from 482,169 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. – When Keeneland announced April 2 that it would tear up its synthetic track surface after the spring meet and replace it with dirt, trainer Charlie LoPresti was among those ...

Keeneland will remove its synthetic Polytrack surface at the end of the spring meet and return its main track to dirt before its fall meeting this October, the Lexington oval announced April 2.

This Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, hundreds of horses will take to the track for the Breeders' Cup. One hundred and eighty horses have been pre-entered in 15 ...

Keeneland has begun installation of the dirt racing surface on its main track, the final step in the renovation project that is on schedule for completion next month in advance of the fall meeting.

Santa Anita is looking into the possibility of removing its dirt surface, where the majority of the track’s 36 horse deaths since December have occurred, and going back to a synthetic surface.

Horse racing at Laurel Park could resume Saturday after a consultant hired by the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association found only modest problems with the track’s dirt surface during ...

ARCADIA >> When Dennis Moore became Santa Anita Park’s track superintendent in December, he was tasked with ensuring the safety of the track’s horses, jockeys, trainers and ever… ...