Renovations to the Taree Greyhound track 03.10.23

Manning River Times

Renovations to the Taree Greyhound track

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00:00 So what we're doing, of course,

00:01 the grass surface changes to lime,

00:04 which is, it's not quite as pretty, but it looks good.

00:09 The back of the track remains about where it is,

00:12 and the front of the track will come this way

00:14 with the purpose of expanding the radiuses

00:17 of the corners of each end.

00:20 And so that, of course, means that you've gotta

00:22 slightly change the position of the starting boxes,

00:24 so you maintain all Des's favorite starting distances.

00:27 - That's right.

00:28 - And so our track is then much closer.

00:31 - Closer to the action.

00:32 - Yeah, closer to the action,

00:33 which I, personally, I find much more satisfying to do,

00:37 so I'm on top of it.

00:39 We've got a whole lot of water conservation works.

00:42 The water here is slightly difficult.

00:46 We've got a dam over the back fence there

00:49 that they pump water out of every day,

00:52 and we'll be storing more water and collecting more water.

00:55 See all of these drains, they're just

00:57 going down into the general swamp.

01:00 So we'll be trying to conserve as much water as we can.

01:05 Electricity efficiency generation on the roofs,

01:08 full revamp of all of these facilities,

01:11 and I think it's gonna be better and safer.

01:15 Everything about it is designed to be safer.

01:18 - Yep, good.

01:19 - It's wonderful.

01:20 - So we are looking forward to it,

01:21 and the club will get nice new seven-four boards

01:24 and all sorts of good things.

01:26 It's a refit a long time in the pipeline, wasn't it?

01:31 - It's been a while in the pipeline, you know,

01:33 and I can tell you now, the trainers can't wait.

01:37 To have a track befitting of that is wonderful.

01:40 We're really, really looking forward to it.

01:43 - It's perfect.

01:44 - And tell me about the line rather than the grass surface.

01:46 Was there a lot less water?

01:48 - No, no, more water probably.

01:50 - It's more.

01:50 - More water.

01:51 - It's a very good question.

01:52 - It's probably more water.

01:54 - I've said it previously, it uses more.

01:56 - But as Rob mentioned,

01:56 we've got quite a large dam system over there.

02:00 We also have bore water.

02:02 We have a bore over there with a spear

02:04 and everything in for the bore water.

02:05 Plus we have town water to back up if we really need.

02:08 But the only time we really use town water

02:11 is to water the dogs down.

02:13 So we avoid that at all costs.

02:15 But basically, you know, and as he said,

02:19 we've got plenty of solar on the roof.

02:22 It's pretty self-sufficient really.

02:25 You know, so.

02:26 (silence)

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