It's good that you guys are coming to Hot Springs for the Rebel even if it is only through electronic means. It too bad your are not going to be here in the flesh. Then you could go down to Bathhouse Row and see how Hot Springs makes it living which is selling water which is sometimes hot and sometimes cold to the visitors. The hot water is of course the baths and cold water is bottled by the Mountain Valley Water Company. It is said that when Afleet Alex was at Oaklawn, he never drank anything but Mountain Valley Water.
As for the baths, I have never had one except the conventional kind at home. Natives don't do those kinds of things. That's only for the tourists.
I wish I could say that Oaklawn might be kinder to me since it is my home track, but I cannot claim any special privilege there. They shamelessly take my money just like that of anybody else.