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Originally Posted by moke0043
Your in Austin right? What do you think about Retama? Driven by it multiple times but have never stopped by to check it out. The same with Sam Houston. Driven by it, but it kinda seems difficult to get to from the freeway. Who knows, I don't know my way around Houston anyway....
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ok,
Im saying this as someone who loves just about any track.
stay away from Manor.
I will not even go there to pick up a racing form.
for starters, the parking lot is just a bunch of gravel rocks.
2 rusted trash cans with flies greet you as you exit it and then you go into the gates.
its 100% outdoors besides this "players club" they are so proud of.
reminds me of a small diner in an even smaller town.
dont pay the $5 to go in the players club.
they have probably 10 monitors mounted against the wall underneath the grandstand with picnic tables to sit at.
thats also where the tellers are.
no machines that I remember(its been about 6 months since i went there to get a form for Belmont Stakes day).
the grandstand is very similar to a small town little league field.
its just terrible.
I read that the TX legislature made them spend 4.5M earlier in the decade to make it thoroughbred ready.
Im wondering where 4.4M of that went b/c its sure not at the track.
as for SAM,
its fine.
not clean like LS, but it at least has a mid-major feel.
on the bottom level, there are tables, monitors, and lots of machines.
plus a decent players club.
bar in the middle with food available also.
tellers are centreally located.
take stairs or escalators to the top for box and reserved seating.
kind of like the 2nd level of LS, just not as big or as nice.
but the track itself is nice.
long stretch.
good turf course.
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