"Maybe the new racing surface being installed this year at some of the major tracks around the country will help reduce the number of catastrophic breakdowns like that which happened to Barbaro"
Don't count on that NOT having "unintended consequences", such as the RESPIRATORY ISSUES we hear about - both for horses and the jockeys.
Living with foreign objects in your lungs wouldn't be very nice. And unlike many break-downs, it wouldn't be quick and instantaneous.
When it comes to horse racing (and most things in life) I don't count on anything. My comment was a wish, a hope. Nothing more.