{"id":12177,"date":"2019-03-10T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2019-03-10T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:48:03","slug":"track-breakdowns-tractors-part-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/track-breakdowns-tractors-part-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Breakdowns &#8211; Are Ten Ton Tractors Compressing The Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12179\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hqdefault-e1552254899509-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>In light of the Santa Anita breakdowns, a Thoroughbred People fan has suggested and ventured that &#8220;Vehicular traffic (tractor and ambulance) is highly destructive to the cushion. Horse drawn harrows and gate have great advantages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watching the tractors tow the harrows between races, I have often wondered how the compression of narrow lanes of the track by a multi-ton John Deere tractor vehicle effects the track. Whether it adds to the track inconsistency or not, what a nice sight it would be for racing fans to see the harrows towed by plough horses instead.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12183\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tractor-e1552336079390-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In light of the Santa Anita breakdowns, a Thoroughbred People fan has ventured that\u00a0 &#8220;Vehicular traffic (tractor and ambulance) is highly destructive to the cushion. Horse drawn harrows and gate have great advantages.&#8221; Watching the tractors tow the harrows between races, I have also wondered how the compression of narrow lanes of the track by a multi-ton John Deere tractor vehicle effects the track. Whether it adds to the track inconsistency or not, what a nice sight it would be for racing fans to see the harrows towed by plough horses instead.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-happening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}