This is a wonderful article about the Middleburg Training and the man who is restoring it to use.
really neat!!
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Thanks for sharing. :yes:
Despite the shuttering of many training facilities recently, I do think they will become racing’s future as racetrack managers get smart and abandon the backside model. Hopefully Kuhn’s investment will continue to be viable. 
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IKR - it was pretty scary there for a while. I hope he makes it work!
The VTA’s certified residence program (as mentioned in the article) really should be their sweet spot. That program has resulted in a lot of otherwise empty barns and farms at risk of ceasing to be occupied. I’m not sure about the future plans of having a show horse addition at the MTC. That really would change the dynamic of the facility.
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Having show horses/etc. at MTC wouldn’t change it at all - the place is a ghost town after 11 am weekdays, and virtually empty on Sundays. It’s a huge facility, surrounded by thousands of acres of farmland, and could easily support an all weather ring, and a schooling ring, and an outside hunter course and maybe a trail loop, and xxxxx. So many things could be done there.
I think it’s a great idea. Whatever can fill the man’s barns, he should do, though perhaps with an ‘out’ if suddenly dozens of racehorses fall from heaven trying to get into the place.
I understand from a trainer that works horses there that the new surface is better, and not having the iron irrigation system makes it less scary to work a horse snugged down on the rail …
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