I hear ya. I've found that at this particular facility it is better to go high with the ISO than to have to bring up the shadows after the fact. I suppose that fits right in with "expose to the right"

This is cropped from 4256x2832 to 1316x1977 and then re-sized to 600 on the tall side. No sharpening and no noise reduction.

At the original resolution, the noise on the walls an floor is pretty evident, but easy to remove.



The darker dogs didn't fair quite as well (especially when moving pretty quickly like over the jump. Plus, if I didn't get the eyes right over the bar (my focus point was the sign) the images are pretty much trash.





I was aiming for a lot of the "pauses" during the runs, but I did get a few decent action shots as well.

I actually bumped up to ISO 4500 and f4 on the 85 a bit for these and most of day two now that I look at the stats in Lightroom.