The Polytrack racing surface at Turfway Park was installed two weeks ahead of schedule, but the sighs of relief by track officials may be short-lived as the Sept. 7 meet opener approaches. This is new ...

Woodbine unveiled its state-of-the-art Polytrack racing surface for training on Sunday. Hundreds of horses galloped, jogged, or walked while 84 recorded timed workouts ranging from two furlongs to ...

A revolution is under way in thoroughbred racing with the introduction of the track surface known as Polytrack. Polytrack is a mixture of wax-coated synthetic materials and sand that is getting ...

Despite reducing horse-racing fatalities, Keeneland Race Course will replace its rubberized Polytrack with dirt — joining a growing number of major tracks that have abandoned the once-popular ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Handicappers analyzing tomorrow’s Breeders’ Cup must deal with a variable they’ve never faced before: Horses that have raced or trained over the all-weather, artificial surfaces ...

Hard Spun’s victory in last month’s Lane’s End Stakes was one of the most impressive performances by a Thoroughbred this spring. On the backstretch, the colt ran so smoothly that jockey Mario Pino had ...

A Turfway Park press release: Turfway Park’s 38th Annual Holiday Race Meet Opens Dec. 1 FLORENCE, Ky. (Nov. 19, 2013) – Live Thoroughbred racing returns to the Tristate on Sun., Dec. 1, with the ...

Many of you have asked me how I'm handicapping Del Mar with its new Polytrack surface. First off, two tracks gave us clues, Keeneland and Arlington, which already have Polytrack. Closers have done ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Keeneland is keeping busy in the off-season, converting its track back to a dirt surface -- but track officials say it was the right move. It's Day One of a $4 million ...

Club chairman Mike Symons said the new track, which will replace the deteriorating ViscoRide track, would be ready in February. "There has been extensive research by track manager Jason Kerr and the ...

So, Del Mar's Polytrack isn't perfect and it's not for everyone. The surface can be exceedingly slow and biased toward closers. That shouldn't exactly come as a surprise. The synthetic surface era is ...