To provide better cushioning for the horses, turf height is maintained at four-and-one-half-inches and typically mowed twice a week. Most race days, four to five races are run on the turf course, each with from seven to twelve horses. Te crew repairs divots between races. If the turf course is overly wet, a race will be switched to the main course and owners allowed to withdraw their horse with no penalty. (Bottom page 20)


Compaction is monitored and core samples are pulled each morning. Irrigation is heaviest early in the week, allowing the courses to dry down for race days. Te turf track has four configurations—which can be alternated daily—on the hedge and set at 12, 24 or 36 feet out using moveable, temporary rails, designed to slip into sub-surface PVC piping. Flexible rubber surrounds the PVC pipe and extends up through the turf to guide rail placement (below). After the racing season, the turf is mowed short, core aerated, slit seeded with tall fescue, and fertilized. From then through early March, the total turf surface is covered with 46 150-foot by 50-foot tarps—otherwise the geese would eat the grass to the ground.


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