Roy Smith, the founder of the Track Superintendent Field Day, is a second-generation racetracker who started in 1977 at Suffolk Downs, moved to Philadelphia Park (now Parx) in 1984 to work for 31 years, and finally moved to Indiana Grand (now Horseshoe Indianapolis) in 2014 to work until his retirement at the end of the racing season in 2022. Smith was a regular attendee at what used to be called the “dirt panel” at the RTIP Symposium, but when the dirt panel was dropped from the symposium’s schedule, Smith took over and launched the Track Superintendent Field Day in 2001. Roy Smith was heavily involved in the organization and planning of the Track Superintendent Field Day for 22 years.