Michael-- remind me in a week, we\'ll look at all the dry tracks from the first week at Sar this year and last and compare average \"speed\".
Questions like that get real complicated because there are a lot of variables. I\'ll tell you one thing this guy does that is different-- even when the track is \"fast\", he sometimes seals the main track before a grass race, then breaks it open again before the next dirt race, or seals it in the morning, then breaks it open just before racing.
On 6/30, for example, he sealed the track at 11:00 a.m., harrowed at 12:30, sealed it before 6 (grass), harrowed it AFTER 6, resealed it again right away before 7 (also grass), harrowed it again after 7. He didn\'t add any water to the track all day. Very unusual. I had the track at one speed for all the races before they sealed it and unsealed it twice in the middle of the card-- the only dirt race after that I had the track about 4 1/2 points slower.
