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                      -- Tapeta Racing at GPX delayed about a week

"According to a report Friday in the Daily Racing Form, the opening of the synthetic Tapeta track at Gulfstream is on hold. The surface was expected to be put into use Sept. 23. However, according to DRF, there will be a delay of about one week before the Tapeta track will be unveiled for races in the afternoons.

The problem has arisen because the rail for the new course has not yet arrived from the U.K. and has been stuck in customs."

"The 09-27-2021 HDW File Mgr ONLY program update:

After installing this download:
You should find that the HDW File Mgr delivered by this download handles races and workouts on Gulfstream Park’s new Tapeta Course as surface code “d” (without the quotes.)

Background Info
Over the past several weeks Gulfstream Park replaced the outer part of their Turf Course with a new Tapeta Course.

A few days ago Gulfstream began allowing horses to train on the new Tapeta Course. I’ve been told that within the next week to ten days Gulfstream Park plans to card their first race on the new Tapeta Course.

I decided to use surface code “d” (without the quotes) because the new Tapeta Course is located inside of Gulfstream’s Outer Main Dirt Course.

Going forward, Gulfstream Park will have three courses. They will be reported in JCapper as follows:

1. An Outer Main Dirt Course – surface code “D” (without the quotes) in PlayList File Mode – and IntSurface=1 in SQL Mode.

2. An Inner Tapeta Course - surface code “d” (without the quotes) in PlayList File Mode – and IntSurface=2 in SQL Mode.

3. A Turf Course - surface code “T” (without the quotes) in PlayList File Mode – and IntSurface=4 in SQL Mode.

Note that races taken Off the Turf and run on the new Tapeta Course will be reported as surface code “d” (without the quotes) in PlayList File Mode – and IntSurface=2 in SQL Mode.

Note that races taken Off the Turf and run on the Outer Main Dirt Course will continue to be reported as surface code “O” (without the quotes) in PlayList File Mode – and IntSurface=3 in SQL Mode."