There is a lot of shoveling that is required in this game. Most of it is not on the backstretch.
Maybe some of that manure could be put to good use.
Why not place solar panels on the track roofs? The time for infrastructure development is now, while times are tough and costs are falling.
Market the GREEN of racing.
10 December 2008
The smell of manure in the morning
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I've thought about this angle as well, but in terms of conservation of open land, and the importance of the thoroughbred industry in conservation of farm/ag land. Actually, horses in general = conservation. We need acres to raise them on, fields to ride them in, oats and corn to harvest and feed them, hay to cut for them. What you're proposing here is a really good idea. There's so much talk about appealing to the next generation through media, but there's just something antithetical about marketing horses through increasingly high tech means. It's too bad that all tracks aren't like green, open parks in the middle of the city.
You are so, so right about infrastructure development needing to happen now. Right now, racing is trying to catch up with today. It needs to be looking at tomorrow, at 10 years down the road, like you said a while back.
Green racing! I like the concept. Market the environmental goodness of infrastructure improvements, the pastoral loveliness of green spaces and horses, especially in cities.
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