Murph
08-12-2006, 09:08 AM
Could there BE any worse management of a race meeting?
Fair Grounds purses upped to highest ever
by: Marcus Hersh, Daily Racing Form
8/11/2006
Clipped from an article posted here:
http://www.ntra.com/content.aspx?type=news&id=19491
I thought the comments on the track conditions and what they did to it after the hurricane were quite interesting.
"The turf course and the main track should be in good shape for the meet, Soth said, and Fair Grounds has re-hired its noted former trackman Roy Fabret. Other track maintenance consultants have come in to help, including Butch Lehr, the trackman at Churchill Downs (http://www.ntra.com/track.aspx?id=3707), and Art Read, the original designer of the turf course. Soth said the major issue with the track surfaces as well as the infield was saline contamination from flooding, but the salt was removed through the application of 90,000 pounds of gypsum."
Detractors and naysayers are welcome and expected.
Murph
Fair Grounds purses upped to highest ever
by: Marcus Hersh, Daily Racing Form
8/11/2006
Clipped from an article posted here:
http://www.ntra.com/content.aspx?type=news&id=19491
I thought the comments on the track conditions and what they did to it after the hurricane were quite interesting.
"The turf course and the main track should be in good shape for the meet, Soth said, and Fair Grounds has re-hired its noted former trackman Roy Fabret. Other track maintenance consultants have come in to help, including Butch Lehr, the trackman at Churchill Downs (http://www.ntra.com/track.aspx?id=3707), and Art Read, the original designer of the turf course. Soth said the major issue with the track surfaces as well as the infield was saline contamination from flooding, but the salt was removed through the application of 90,000 pounds of gypsum."
Detractors and naysayers are welcome and expected.
Murph