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for the farm’s newest arrivals. She had to use her imagination: there were no windows and just one door. “But it was the obvious place," she noted, pointing out the proximity, but separateness, of the small stable.
The track set-up was immediately obvious. “We looked out into that hay field, and I could see how it would sit," McClure said, gesturing to the rolling, oblong field, with a short dogleg closest to the stable yard with room for a starting gate. “It worked out just right.”
The infield, and just outside the 12-foot wide synthetic surface, make up two turf gallops. Schooling hurdles line one side of the track; timber schooling fences dot a pasture on the other side of the farm.
An outside wash rack, a tack room, an office, a shed-barn for her small herd of miniature horses and a couple ponies that McClure uses in her burgeoning lesson program took up several of the old buildings. The other structures Cooney ordered pushed over and burned as the pair looked to the newly open areas for an 100-by-200-foot outdoor riding arena, and a 180-by-80-foot indoor. (“With the same polyfooting as the track,” McClure noted. “You can’t hear a horse working in there. It just absorbs concussion so well.”)
Though traditional sand tracks are still the norm at most training centers and racetracks around the nation, limitations include a tendency to hold water when it rains, reducing the surface to a cuppy goo or slick, uneven footing,
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