Procedure: The present worth of each system was taken using the installation cost per linear foot. Added to that was the remove and dispose cost for concrete (with the interest calculated over the. expected useful life of the curbing) or the remove, stockpile and reset cost of the granite, also per. linear foot.
The numbers never change, and the variable hurdles are always the same. Kentucky Derby length - 1 1/4 mile dirt track at Churchill Downs. --->>> 10 furlongs. Preakness Stakes length - 1 3/16 dirt track at Pimlico Race Course.
A few days before Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, I drove from Churchill Downs to Stoner Creek Stud outside of Paris, Kentucky, the home of the 1943 Triple Crown winner, the immortal Count Fleet. Old-timers used to tell me Count Fleet was one of the two or three greatest horses that ever raced in America.