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Training Hours

Laurel:
Winter: 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Summer: 5:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Break: 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Track and Stable Information

Pimlico
Track Surface
Dirt:

• 1 mile loam oval; Six-furlong and 1 1/4 mile chutes
• Length of stretch from last turn to finish line = 1,152 feet
• Track = 70 feet wide.

Turf Course:

• 7/8 of a mile inside main track
• Aluminum inner rail
• Grass Course installed in 1954

  ¦Mixture of 90% Turf type tall fescue and 10% Blue Grass.

  ¦Grass height is maintained at four to five inches during racing season.

Stable Area
• 665 stalls, plus tack, feed and 132 sleeping rooms.

Mechanical-Electronic Equipment
• United Starting Gate; American Totalisator; Photo Finish/Camera; American Teletimer Corp. timing system; International Sound Corp., Video tape patrol closed circuit television; LumatronX Board.

Laurel
Track Surface
Dirt:

• 1-mile 600 feet oval with a 7 1/2 furlong chute to first finish line
• One turn mile chute to second finish line
• Length of stretch from last turn to first finish line -- 1,089 feet
• Length of stretch from last turn to second finish line -- 1,419 feet
• Width of track - 95 feet.

Turf:

• 7/8 mile and 254 feet inside main track
• Length of stretch - 1,089 feet to finish line
• Width of turf - 142 feet
• Turf Composition-sandy loam

  ▌ 90% turf type tall fescue and 10% blue grass

  ▌ Grass height maintained at 4 inches during racing season