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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: GOAT on April 29, 2024, 06:07:57 PM
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Are they talking about rebuilding Quad City Downs?
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Why would anyone do that unless you want to lose millions of dollars.
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Are they talking about rebuilding Quad City Downs?
ngc3 stop busting balls. My heydays were all at the downs.
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Where in the hell is this track?
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Where in the hell is this track?
East Moline ,Illinois. Back in the day, their handle was about the same as Cumberland.
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East Moline ,Illinois. Back in the day, their handle was about the same as Cumberland.
How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?
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How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?
Ask Dave Magee and Tony Morgan they both had stables there.
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How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?
They had $900 - $3000 purses. Magee and Morgan started their careers there.
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How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?
1973-1993 then as an OTB until January 2015.
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When QCD/EMD raced on Sunday afternoons they were the only game in IL.
Sundays they had some good IL Bred Stakes races.
That would bring Busse, Banks, Graham, Harmer, and many good Chicago horses and drivers.
It was a great place to race.
Family atmosphere!
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Ask Dave Magee and Tony Morgan they both had stables there.
Dave Magee was a bust there. Tony Mo was the leading driver there. Tom Simmons was the man.
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That place was a _hithole. Anyone that would allow John Searle to drive there had rocks in their head.
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Anyone that would allow John Searle to drive there had rocks in their head.
John was more then OK when on a live catch drive.
It was on the horses that he trained that earned him the moniker
"Hub Rail Johnny"!
Just call me.
"Rocks in his head"
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As a former QCD'er who now lives in the QC again, this stuff just is hilarious. ngc3 ngc3 Every so often this topic has to come up because the place sits there, dilapidated to all get out. It WAS fun to race and do all what we did, but peeps, the "Moline" plant isn't viable and will never be. The ONLY shot it would have is if someone won the lottery and decided to make it a training center. I will say this though, a LOT of very prominent people came through that place at one time or another. I drive past there often, telling people its been close for 31 years now. Great memories. That's it.
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I fuckin' loved that place!
https://imgur.com/Luc6mjx
https://imgur.com/MsH72Y3
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Lazy John Searle was a jackoff.
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Searle couldn't drive an ice cream wagon.
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Tim was worse.
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Quad Cities, all of them ghettos...