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Ready for the races: Annual turf burning at Colonial Downs means it’s almost race season

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Colonial Downs set its turf course afire last week as part of an annual ritual to get the track ready for this year's horse racing season. The annual controlled burn prepares the racing surface for the nine-week season, which is scheduled to begin July 11 and run through Sept. 7. At 180 feet wide, the Secretariat Turf Course is the widest grass racing course in North America.

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Ready for the races: Annual turf burning at Colonial Downs means it’s almost race season

NEW KENT — Colonial Downs set its turf course afire last week as part of an annual ritual to get the track ready for this year’s horse racing season in New Kent. The annual controlled burn prepares — and actually helps — the racing surface for the nine-week season, which is scheduled to begin July 11 and run through Sept. 7. “At Colonial Downs, the turf burn means spring has arrived and live racing is right around the corner,” Frank Hopf, senior…

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