The Greyhound Adoption Person of the Year Award was started in 2007 by the American Greyhound
Track Operators Association, and became a program of the American Greyhound Council (AGC) in 2010.
Robert Williams, the executive director of the commission, said at a meeting Tuesday that Saratoga's
operator, the New York Racing
Association, had recently brought in Mick Peterson, a racing - surface expert based at the University of Maine, to examine the
tracks.