Del Mar crowd Saturday

[philcski]

http://www.drf.com/news/article/97225.html

Big crowd, big appetite
Del Mar had its second-largest crowd of the season on Saturday, when 39,679 fans came through the turnstiles. The ontrack handle was just $2,963,506.80, though, an average of $74.69 per capita, reflecting that many of the fans were here merely to take in a post-race concert by Ziggy Marley in the infield.

But the track's bottom line held up well, since many of the patrons apparently had a case of the munchies. The unmistakable aroma wafting through the air left them high on more than just life.

"We sold $303,000 worth of junk food in the infield," Joe Harper, Del Mar's chief executive officer, said Monday morning. "Our food and beverage department did $1 million worth of business. I was backstage before the show, and I'll tell you, I was getting a terrible headache. And when I got home, I wanted to eat everything in the house."

None of that food and beverage money goes toward purses, but Harper said it would be used to help fund construction of new barns.

LOL... da Jamaicans flew in from Aqueduct I guess