money there," he recalled. "The loos
were just terrible. The water sup-
ply from the road to the main stand
was completely blocked. In the la-
dies loo, there were 20 cubicles
and before the race days, I think 12
were locked, because there wasn't
enough water."
While the track now features a
2350-meter circuit and a 1400-me-
ter straight, the straight course had
long since been abandoned. "The
sight lines from the
stands were complete-
ly covered in trees that
had grown there since
the war," he said. "When
you were in the grand-
stand, you couldn't
see the horses on the
straight track and so we
felled a huge number
of trees, against a lot of resistance
from environmentalists and peo-
ple who said, `oh, he just wants to
build houses there.' I said no, I just
want to turn this into a profes-
sional racecourse. If at the Olym-
pic Stadium, tall bushes or trees
grew behind the goal, everyone
would understand that they block
the spectators' sight lines. That's
"AT A P L A C E L I K E H O P P E G A R T E N ,
Y O U A R E R E A L LY A C U R AT O R O F
A N O L D I N S T I T U T I O N , H O P I N G T O
M A K E I T R E L E VA N T T O P E O P L E O F
T H I S A G E A N D T O H A N D I T O N I N
T H E B E S T S H A P E P O S S I B L E ."
