Pegasus Training Center

Bill from WA · Postby **Bill from WA** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:27 pm

http://pegasustrainingcenter.com/gallery/

What a beautiful facility!

Bill

jellac · Postby **jellac** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:31 am

Bill - Thanks for sharing. This facility is truly amazing. A state of the art rehabilitation/training facility for the performance equine of the highest calibre.

WarHorse · Postby **WarHorse** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:50 am

That's the way they ought to be built!

Limited turn-out, but considering the circumstances that is to be expected.

Thanks for the link, Bill, you brightened my day a little.

magic code · Postby **magic code** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:14 pm

Thanks, Bill. I've looked for a long time for their website - didn't realize they finally had put one up. Isn't it marvelous they've got the old Longacres auxiliary gate?

Anyone know what became of Woods Creek Training Center?

certifiedgirl · Postby **certifiedgirl** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:02 am

I took my filly up to Pegasus last summer- it is an absolutely beautiful facility, and the cleanest barns I have ever seen too!
I got to walk out on the polytrack and it is really cool stuff, they also had it in a large indoor arena and I asked how often they had to drag it and was told they hadn't had to drag it at all! What a timesaver that would be, no watering or dragging the arena and track.

Bill from WA · Postby **Bill from WA** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:50 am

Hi certified girl

How have you been? How is your Taj Alriyadh boy doing? Any babies this year? Hope you are all well.

Bill

louis finochio · Postby **louis finochio** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:09 pm

Santa Anita has the best natural setting for a racetrack and worlds worst backstretch conditions. Frank Stronach has the $$ to do a makeover on his backstretch. Lets hope he sees the class operation at Pegasus to make a carbon copy of the same on SA backstretch.

halfpint23 · Postby **halfpint23** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:15 pm

magic code wrote:Thanks, Bill. I've looked for a long time for their website - didn't realize they finally had put one up. Isn't it marvelous they've got the old Longacres auxiliary gate?

Anyone know what became of Woods Creek Training Center?

I live right around the bend from the old Woods Creek Training Center - they recently put up a Pegasus sign, and are fencing a slug of new paddock space - look to be waiting a year for the sod to establish before putting stock on it. It's still a beautiful facility that makes me green with envy every time I drive by it, but as of now it looks like very few horses are there - track isn't getting used as it was earlier. They have put up a new round building - looks like one of those huge fancy hotwalker excerciser things. Just a lot of work going on - but I don't fly in the stratosphere to know what their plans are!

skeenan · Postby **skeenan** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:06 pm

It looks amazing... makes my guys look like they're living in squalor! :lol:

What is the material in the indoor arena? Polytrack material or something like Perma-Flex footing?

Bill from WA · Postby **Bill from WA** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:10 pm

The arena has polytrack just like the training track.

Bill

DanN · Postby **DanN** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:36 am

I was there when they first opened and the arena is polytrack and that they had been using it for a month and never had to drag it either. Maybe time will tell that safer tracks, less horses beaking down and less maintenance that it will pay for itself..

Cathyleabo · Postby **Cathyleabo** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:06 am

Is Woods Creek in Monroe? My daughter worked there for a while. very interesting.

halfpint23 · Postby **halfpint23** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:21 am

Cathyleabo wrote:Is Woods Creek in Monroe? My daughter worked there for a while. very interesting.

It's to the east of Monroe, actually closer to Sultan, north of Hwy 2.

Discovery · Postby **Discovery** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:56 am

oh how I wish I had the money to keep my horses somewhere like that!

UmmYeah · Postby **UmmYeah** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:45 pm

Discovery wrote:oh how I wish I had the money to keep my horses somewhere like that!

Yes, which begs the question: how much does it cost? Nowhere on the Pegasus site does it mention cost. Is it a matter of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it"?