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Old 06-26-2007, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by philcski
Thanks for the suggestions, all. Had a great time down there, Texas rocks and Lone Star is an A+ facility. Seems awfully small for a Breeders Cup but we were shocked by the popularity and diversity of the crowd.

Racing in other states could learn a lot from them, seems to me running in the evening works a lot better than during the day when people have things like their job to attend to...
Phil,

Glad to hear you had a good time and I agree that Lone Star is a terrific facility. They usually prosper this time of year when the entertainment dollar isn't split many different ways. When the Mavericks are still alive and the Rangers are still relevant (which is about until mid-May) and there's a race at Texas Motor Speedway Lone Star suffers. Now that none of those three apply, their attendance is usually respectable.

The Breeders' Cup was a temporary seat bonanza as you may have guessed from the relatively small size of the main "glass box" grandstand. Hopefully as the years go by Lone Star will keep getting days added to their spring meet, because too many months are wasted at Sam Houston.

NT
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