The Blood-Horse has put much of its synthetic surfaces edition online for free. I’d like to think that what I wrote at the end of this post had something to do with it (someone at The Blood-Horse did see the post, according to good old StatCounter), but I fear that I’d be gravely overestimating the sphere of my influence.
So…read away, enjoy, and comment!
Brooklyn Backstretch 
mebbe you can use your “influence” to get the folks at Blood Horse to reprise that article…i sent them a congratulatory-type note a few months back, importuning them for an annual follow-up…nada in return…