Odd that you used Kentucky Downs for your example, because this is a track that runs maybe 7 days a year and doesn't normally need to use a temporary rail to save the turf course for the rest of the meet. As it was, 4 inches of rain in 3 hours on Saturday morning, followed by more rain on Sunday made the turf 'bottomless' and necessitated the postponement. The four stakes races from Saturday were 'tacked on' to the front of the Monday card - couldn't have been tacked onto the end of the day because of daylight problems. Then the Monday card was moved to Tuesday. My guess as to why they used a rail is that the inside part of the turf course was so waterlogged that it would have been dangerous for horses to run on it.
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09-28-2006, 01:46 PM
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