Santa Anita will conduct a renovation of its main track after training hours on Wednesday, a process that will be completed within a day and result in a two-day break in timed workouts, track consultant Dennis Moore said on Sunday. The renovation will be completed slightly less than two weeks prior to the start of the winter-spring meeting on Dec. 26 and is likely to result in a slightly quicker surface, Moore said. Full training will be held on Wednesday, but trainers will not be allowed to work horses on the main track on Thursday and Friday, the track announced in a text message to owners and trainers on Saturday. “We want to get down into it and get some more fines,” Moore said, referring to mixing the content of silt and clay in the surface. “We want to do a blending and mixing of materials. “It will take us all day to do that. We’ll open the track [Thursday] and not let them work on it a few days. They can work on it on Saturday.” Moore said the renovation is done “a couple of times a year.” “It will make it a little bit quicker, but we don’t want to make it too quick,” he said. The main track frequently produced slow final times during the Santa Anita autumn meeting from Sept. 27 to Nov. 3. “We’re trying to create that same kind of track as Del Mar,” Moore said. “The two tracks have the same material. We’re trying to get it more like the times at Del Mar during the fall than what we were running at Santa Anita.” The renovation was scheduled for late November but postponed because of rain. Moore is in frequent consultant with weather consultants, who are projecting less rain in coming weeks and months, he said. “Everybody that I’ve talked to, and what I’ve read they are forecasting, is for a drier winter than we had last year,” he said. Southern California had higher-than-normal rain in the winter of 2018-19 that was considered a contributing factor in a series of equine fatalities that marred the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting and led to a three-week disruption of racing in March. Moore retired as a track consultant at Santa Anita last December, but returned to the track at the end of February. He led a team that worked on a renovation and inspection of the main track in March for the weeks without racing. While forecasters are projecting fewer rainstorms, Moore has seen the opposite in his lifelong work as a track consultant. “One of the guys I talked to said it’s unusual to have back-to-back rain events like last year,” he said on Sunday. “From 1977 to the winter of 1982-83, we were getting 30 to 40 inches of rain. We had some major rain events at that time. “I turned 70 on Saturday. I’ve lived through those years.”