San Luis Rey Training Center delays reopening until April

Not wanting to have horses on the premises until construction of new barns is completed, officials at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall have delayed the reopening of the facility until April.

Officials had previously said that the facility would start welcoming back a limited number of horses in February and that training would take place while temporary barns were being constructed to replace the eight barns that burned in the Lilac fire, Dec. 7. Six barns that weren't damaged by the fire were to house the first 200 arrivals.

Kevin Habell, general manager of the San Luis Rey Trainin...