What's a detention barn?

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Originally Posted by Kasept

One of the greatest quotes I've heard about detention barns as a concept came from John Nerud on ATR last year..

I asked Nerud about them and he said, "They don't work. It's just a show. It's been tried and it doesn't do anything... They did it at Bowie... in 1936."

1936...

Steve,
Is J Nerud still alive? If he is, it would be interesting to hear what he thought of the "tartan surface" developed by 3M (W. McKnight), first installed at The Meadows and later at Hialeah (in lieu of a turf course, I believe)where it was a bust and at Windsor (I saw it there).

Did you know that Tartan, the first synthetic surface, was first tested at Belmont and Saratoga in 1961?

According to the attached areticle by S. Bergstein, it was Nerud who pushed for the development of the synthetic surface, back in 1959. He was ahead of his time.

see p. 8 of the following for story and picture:

http://canadiansportsman.ca/download...man_Sample.pdf