That costs money. They won’t spend anything on that place. When they got their first slot machine, the barns that you could see from 17B were painted in the front. The back and all of the others didn’t get anything.
Between the lost revenue and man power expense to keep the track race worthy in the winter, the pipes would have paid for themselves. Leon Greenberg said no and so Monticello continued to close every Labor Day and didn't open until the spring. Syracuse had the hot water pipes under their mile track and it worked well.
