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Best Pad™ Safety Padding, a state-of-the art safety padding system, is superior to all other racetrack structural padding.  Using a combination of newly developed materials, Best Pad™ Safety Padding has been developed and tested to provide durable, long-lasting protection.  Able to withstand and absorb serious impacts, Best Pad™Safety Padding dramatically increases safety in the gate and decreases maintenance costs.

Best Pad™ Safety Padding can be purchased as an entire padding system or as individual pads for specific areas of the gate.  Click here for prices.

Discounts are available with the purchase of a complete padding system for multiple gates.

 

Best Pad™ Safety Padding on Keeneland's Training Gate


About Best Pad™ Safety Padding:

"I don't think there's anybody in the business that thinks the starting gate isn't a dangerous place to be -- not for just the jockeys, but the gate crews as well. It was in dire need of safety improvements and Best Pad™ Safety Padding provides that needed new level of safety."

               John Giovanni, former Executive Director of the Jockey's Guild

 

Philadelphia Park Race Gate Padded with Best Pad™ Safety Padding

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Best Pad™ Safety Pontoon Padding

 

 Safety Benefits

 Calms horses entering and standing in gate by  covering cold, hard metal

 Dramatically reduces instances of late scratches of fractious horses in the gate

 Protects horses from injury by dissipating focal  forces over a wide surface area

 Safety grit provides sure footing for assistant starters

 

Pontoon Padding Churchill Downs' Main Gate



I looked at the Best Pad™ Safety Padding that’s around the gate, I think if my horse would have had that, at worst, he probably would have had a pretty good headache and that would have been it.  I was impressed.  That padding should be on every starting gate in every race track in America.

          -- John Servis, Trainer of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Winner Smarty Jones

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Best Pad Safety Padding

Safety Benefits 

Helps prevent injuries to riders or gate crew when thrown into or pinned by a horse to a pole

Helps prevent injuries to horses flipping in the gate hitting the hind poles

Helps prevent injuries to riders hitting the front pole when leaving the gate

Maintenance Benefits 

Extremely durable – keeps its attractive appearance for years

Sleek and seamless design – no brackets or screws  – easily removed for inspection

 Easily cleaned and maintained – no painting required

 Water and U V resistant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEST PAD™

 Safety Padding System

Front and rear poles; super structure; hand railings and pontoons for United/Puett style starting gates

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Gate Size

Number of Pads

 

Price in US$

 

 

14-Stalls

172 Best Pad™ Safety Pads

 

$41,425.00

 

 

12-Stalls

148 Best Pad™ Safety Pads

 

$35,695.00

 

 

10-Stalls

124 Best Pad™ Safety Pads

 

$29,965.00

 

 

8-Stalls

100 Best Pad™ Safety Pads

 

$24,235.00

 

 

6-Stalls

76 Best Pad™ Safety Pads

 

$18,505.00

 

 

4-Stalls

52 Best Pad™ Safety Pads

 

$12,775.00

 

 

1 Stall

16 Best Pad™ Safety Pads

 

$  4,180.00

 

 

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 Prices do not include: taxes, tariffs, installation, pontoon installation kits or shipping/delivery costs-FOB Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.

Prices are subject to change without notice. For a price quote, please provide us with the style/manufacture of gate(s) that you wish to pad and the number of stalls per gate. 

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