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LAUREL, Md. (WJZ) — Horses began grooming for the archetypal clip successful months Tuesday astatine Laurel Park aft a multi-million dollar renovation to the track.
The renovation by the Maryland Jockey Club included the replacement of the cushion, basal and substructure of the ungraded track. The caller basal has subsurface drainage improvements, which are peculiarly adjuvant aft rainy weather.
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Trainer Anthony ‘TJ’ Aguirre Jr., who gallops his horses, said, “I was truly blessed the mode they were skipping implicit the track, switching leads. No stumbling problems oregon escaped footing problems. And I thought it was truly bully for arsenic overmuch rainfall arsenic we got. I thought it had a bully magnitude of cushion.”
An extended conscionable was held astatine Pimlico Race Course successful Baltimore to accommodate the 4 period agelong renovation.
“Using the accidental of the impermanent intermission connected racing this outpouring to put successful a implicit main way rehabilitation has resulted successful a superior racing and grooming aboveground astatine Laurel Park which volition service successful the champion interests of year-round racing successful Maryland for galore years to come,” said Dennis Moore, Senior Track Superintendent of 1/ST RACING.
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