Renovations on schedule

Press, 4 February 1987, Page 49

Renovations on schedule

Ashburton reporter The Ashburton Club’s $75,000 renovation programme is going to plan and is within budget, says the secretary of the club, Mr Trevor Robertson. The only hindrance so far was the fire ban in Ashburton, which forced contractors to delay burning off stubble on the steeplechase track, he said. “That is something you can do nothing about.”

The extensive programme began last year, and involved constructing training tracks in the middle of the main track, adding a new section of track to blend with the old one, and forming the steeplechase course. The new section of track would follow the back straight of the existing all-weather track, Mr Robertson said. It is to be sown down after the September gallops meeting, hopefully to be completed for a meeting in March next year.

Mr Robertson said .if hitches to the programme arose and the work was uncompleted, the existing tracks could still be used, as a back-up.

But he said with the present rate of progress, the work should be completed on time.