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O Rourke Completes Turfway Park Grandstand Demo : CEG

Wed May 26, 2021 - Midwest Edition #11 Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent The Turfway Park grandstand was demolished via machinery as opposed to implosion, which allowed training activities to continue after the last live races were held in March 2020. (O’Rourke Wrecking Company photo) The revamp of the Turfway Park horse racing track in Florence, Ky., began on April 23, 2020, when O Rourke Wrecking Company Inc. crews began the demolition of the race track s grandstand, a multi-million-dollar job that was completed last August. Opened in 1959, Turfway Park is replacing the grandstand with a new Historical Horse Racing (HHR) facility that will house up to 1,500 terminals and provide a large entertainment venue to watch the live thoroughbred horse racing and accommodate large-scale functions during the rest of the year.

Under Glare of Probing Questions, Curious Answers in Kentucky

Under Glare of Probing Questions, Curious Answers in Kentucky Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 6:18 pm | Back to: Shared News Updated: April 11, 2021 at 6:27 pm Coady The Week in Review by T.D. Thornton In theory, state racing commissions are supposed to provide a layer of checks and balances by making both racetrack operators and horsemen accountable for their actions. In practice though, that often doesn t happen because regulators in many jurisdictions fail to ask probing questions of licensees during open, public meetings. In Kentucky, for example, if you want the most concise on-the-record snapshot of what s going on with the circuit, the best source generally isn t a Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) meeting. Instead, the proceedings of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF) advisory committee are usually far more informative and insightful.

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