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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
The old track used to freeze and thaw causing the track to be closed for training half the time during the winter and losing 2 weeks of races every winter.
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I know -- and they have trumpeted poly as the reason they didn't close last year (except for 1 day when they mysteriously blamed the roads for that closure also). They didn't have the honesty to admit that last year was an unseasonably mild winter that would have allowed the track to stay open even if they kept the dirt surface. The warm weather was not mentioned at all. Same as this year.
Give it a harsh winter -- and then tell me it handles winter weather. So far on even mild snow days they close and then blame the roads. They can't really plow the snow off the poly as easily as they did with the dirt. Again, if that drainage system freezes and fails they are going to have serious issues with horses hitting a frozen bottom. They won't know it until they run.