Jockey Nicole Hein weighed in on the Prairieland Park soccer stadium being put on hold, saying they never should have strayed from the horse racing track.
in Saskatoon was put on indefinite hold this week, but one advocate for the former horse race track says there was no victory here.1:58took a chance on its own success rather than the benefit of the community and said now nobody is left with anything.Hein had worked at the former race track starting when she was 13 cleaning out stalls, working there over 10 years. She moved up to become a pony horse rider, then an exercise rider until she became a jockey rider.
“Nowhere is like Marquis Downs. It’s like there’s just such a community there, there’s so much support there. It’s very unique,” Hein said. “There’s just this sense of community and everybody loves to go to the races. It’s always packed, contrary to comments in the past.”Prairieland Park asks Saskatoon city council for $8M in funding for new soccer pitch
“They took down everything, they took down all the lights, they took down all the rails, removed everything, anticipating that it was going to pan out and it did not.”She said everything was already there at Marquis Downs, and she felt like not enough people in the community wanted a soccer stadium at that location.She said the opposition to the stadium was never a fight between soccer and horse racing and that the project being put on hold wasn’t a win.
A plan presented to Saskatoon’s governance and priorities committee on Sep. 20, 2017 included a stadium “at a cost of only $20 million” and would have brought a Canadian Premier League team to the city, with the first season starting in April 2019.Trending Now
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