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Malloy to oversee dirt track at Santa Anita
Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:12 PM
by Larry Stewart
Ted Malloy, former track superintendent at Gulfstream Park and now lead track consultant for MI Developments Inc., will oversee the installation of the new dirt track at Santa Anita Park.
Richard Tedesco, the track superintendent at both Santa Anita and Del Mar, said he did not know what his role would be.
“We'll just have to see how things play out," said Tedesco, who has more than 46 years of racetrack maintenance experience.
MI Developments Chairman Frank Stronach announced on August 18 that the synthetic surface at Santa Anita would be replaced with dirt.
MI Developments Chief Executive Officer Dennis Mills said the dirt would come from one of two or three U.S. locations. He declined to say where those locations were.
Larry Stewart is a Southern California-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent
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Posted by: ray, whittier, CA on August 24, 2010 at 11:23 PM
How does Santa Anita get around the CHRB mandate for synthetic surfaces? Has that been rescinded?
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Posted by: Robert, Hollywood, FL on August 22, 2010 at 09:29 AM
When you need to change a Track surface around to provide the best possible cushion, you go to the best and that's MI consultant Ted Malloy!
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