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“We may not have to use the irrigation system at all this year,” says Morven Park’s manager Ed Maurer. “It may have rained enough now. But if it’s dry from now until about 10 days before our race on October 11, then we’ll go to the irrigation system.”
Over the summer the course at Morven Park has had regular doses of fertilizer and lime as required. The important thing, Mr. Maurer feels, is to “keep the grass at a manageable level so that no thatch develops.”
The new Great Meadow course near The Plains has the advantage of having a year-round maintenance manager to take care of its grounds and the land is not used for anything but other horse events during the rest of the year.
But as the summer wore on at the beautiful rolling course officials began to wonder if anything could save the course from irreparable drought damage.
"A month ago we wondered if we would be able to have the races this fall because the course was so brown,” explains Ann Barker, race director at Great Meadow. “But the rains began a few weeks ago and we got the area fertilized and now the
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