Originally Posted by emt8134 If I remember right Curlin ran on turf for one race and did decently-? It's been a few years.. In any case, a lot of Curlins like wet heavy tracks, which turf can play like. I think this is a cross worth trying. He did. He ran second to Red Rocks in the 2008 Man O' War at Belmont Park. A lot of people suspected that he would have done alright on turf if they had run him on it more than once.