Turfway Park cancels Friday card

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by Pointg5

Why does anyone care about the future site of a Wal Mart....

Now that's funny.

Too much racing in the U.S. has watered down the product to no end.

[Pointg5]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Now that's funny.

Too much racing in the U.S. has watered down the product to no end.

That land is too valuable, if the Keeneland group would not have purchased it Jerry Carrol would have sold it by now...Nobody wants to live in Cincinnati anymore and we are all moving to Northern Kentucky...Besides, I am moving there this Summer, that's has to raise property values by 20-30%....

[The Bid]

The track is frozen solid. I walked out on it about an hour ago and you couldnt see my footprints (190). I kicked the harrowed poly and couldnt open the track. Its frozen solid, not stiff, frozen solid. The track has held water, and the water has inturn froze the spandex, carpet, and rubber tires. If they run tomorrow Ill be shocked to death, however mum is the word. Nobody would say one way or the other, but my personal opinion is absolutely no shot they run.

They worked the track throughout the day, its a complete mess.

Yes, Beulah, NY, Charlestown, all ran cards. They dont have a frozen carpet, unfortunately Turfway does and they are still lying about it.

2/16 6am update. They had about an inch and a half of snow here over the night, they are currently working the track.

Horses are out, track seems bad, but they aer going to try to run I do believe. 730

[pmayjr]

If the Poly really is frozen, that's tough to defend. But!!!!!

Remember what spurred Turfway to install the material. It was what? 3 or 4 years ago when they got battared by winter storms for 2 straight weeks, and it madfe the track so un-rideable, that they canclled cards for about that long. They cancelled cards for awhile. So they had to try something new. These guys install the stuff today in the name of "safety", which it might still be. But I think Turfyway put it in in the first place just to have a track that was "rideable" and could stand up to some of the elements. It looks like now it might be backfiring.