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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Admin on January 09, 2025, 06:12:08 AM
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1. Garden State Park
2. Atlantic City Racecourse
3. Brandywine
Your 3?
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Brandywine
Roosevelt
Atlantic City
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Sportsmans Park
Maywood Park
Garden State Park
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Roosevelt (when it was demolished my wife paid a crew member and they went up with her to the clubhouse and dismantled the box seats on the finish line we used to sit in almost every racenight for 15 years and she gave them to me for our next anniversary. We kept them till we moved from Long Island to Seattle. Great track and great memories as an owner and a patron.)
Blue Bonnets (went there on my honeymoon in early April of 1967; great clubhouse dining setup with really attractive young girls taking our bets at the table!! Food and racing were both enjoyable, but doubled the cost of my honeymoon.)
Green Mountain (had a wonderful trainer in New England, Billy Silk, who would handle all of our young-uns and the ones recovering from injuries... would build them up and then race them at Hinsdale and/or Green Mountain, but Green Mountain was in a much nicer setting.)
I guess I could add a 4th now...Freehold. Yes, it had its "issues" but Anthony Abbatiello handled my "2nd tier" horses and when I would come out to his farm we would go to the American Hotel, which had the best Mac & Cheese in the World..and then to the track. He was a real horseman...lots of great stories and too many horses that had to race there instead of the Big M, RR or YR (or Garden State when it was open).
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meadowlands
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Foxboro, Liberty Bell, & Rockingham.
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Blue Bonnets, Freestate, Pompano Park..
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Lebanon Raceway, Pompano Park, Balmoral
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Raised in Ontario
Soooo.....Greenwo od, Windsor, Garden City Raceway
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Wolverine Raceway
Pompano {only if you bring back the training side also}
Windsor Raceway
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balmoral
sportsman
maywood
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Pompano, garden state, brandywine
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1. Garden State Park
2. Atlantic City Racecourse
3. Brandywine
Your 3?
agree tmbz1 tmbz1
along with Liberty Bell--this covered my track experiences from age 10-35
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Hazel Park
Raceway Park
Windsor Raceway
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Hazel Park
Raceway Park
Windsor Raceway
Hazel Park indeed... I grew up right there. It was a part of my life in many ways. tmbz1
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Hazel Park, Windsor, and Pompano...
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Roosevelt Raceway
Brandywine
Balmoral
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Los Al, Hollywood Park, Syracuse Mile. Hard to pick, the list is long. Thought about good times and great racing, would agree to all the picks.
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Roosevelt Raceway
Syracuse Mile
Pompano Park
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Pompano Park
Windsor Raceway
Hazel Park
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Hinsdale
Rockingham
Roosevelt
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Washington Park, Balmoral Park and Sportsman's Park!
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Brandywine
Liberty Bell
Meadowlands, in its heyday.
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Erie Downs
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Pompano
Brandywine
Meadowlands
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Aurora Downs
Quad City Downs
Louisville Downs
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Didn't start Erie Downs, Started as Commodore Downs TBreds opened in 73 lasted till 83, renamed Lakeshore Meadows in 84, Harness racing was done in 86, renamed Erie Downs for return to T Breds. Closed for good in 88. It's an industrial park now, Rt. 90 goes right by it.
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#1 Maywood
#2 Sportsmans
#3 Balmoral tmbz1
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Raceway Park ( home )
Windsor
Hazel Park
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POMPANO is the only one I care about
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Just bring back Greenwood, that place had an atmosphere like no other.
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Balmoral
Roosevelt
Garden State
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Rochester Fair
Foxboro
Green Mountain
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Great question! In their respective heyday...
1) Roosevelt
2) Pompano Park
3) Blue Bonnets
Third was tough. I was thinking Hazel Park, Maywood, and Sportsman's.
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Meadowlands
Mohawk
Greenwood
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* Rockingham Park (N.H)
* Exhibition Park (New Brunswick)
* Scarborough Downs (Maine)
Went to each place before they closed, with my dad
Will always remember the fun times, my son came with us to the last card in St John. These 3 tracks weren't very close together but the memories will last forever.
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1. Maywood without the open stretch.
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Greenwood
Pompano
Los Al
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freehold pompano garden state
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POMPANO When it had the mile training track.
Atlanic City Race Course
Sportsmans Park
Any track is a good track, if you have the best horse!
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Pompano
Roosevelt
Hazel Park
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Wolverine , Raceway Park Toledo , Windsor Raceway
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1. Balmoral Park
2. Maywood Park
3. Raceway Park
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Roosevelt
Meadowlands
Balmoral Park
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The Pomp.
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Lebanon Raceway, Pompano Park, Sportsman park
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Roosevelt, Liberty Bell and Par Meadows.
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Sportsman's Park, Maywood and Balmoral.
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Brandywine
Brandywine
Brandywine
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Roosevelt (top racetrack before the Meadowlands)
Monticello and Meadowlands (if I could time travel back to their haydays- still remember the days when the Mighty M would be packed to the gills on a Sunday afternoon and the Meadowlands had a stand where you could get shrimp cocktail and corn on the cob-and had the best restaurant in racing (Pegasus) where you could walk down to one of the finest glass enclosed racing viewpoints ever devised)
Rochester Fair and Rutland (going through the museum of racing silks at the former and betting heat racing at the latter-two chances to make a buck on the same group of horses)
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Just bring back Greenwood, that place had an atmosphere like no other.
tmbz1
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Lewiston, Brandywine, and Rockingham
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Starting Car Museum-USTA should have moved it to Goshen with Greyhound’s Stall.
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Windsor , hazel park, Jackson
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The one and only greatest and most famous half mile track ever----Roosevelt Raceway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dyw7pvG4OQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqJYmXdvnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwU_rw6Ikm0
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Brandywine, Garden State, Pompano
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The one and only greatest and most famous half mile track ever----Roosevelt Raceway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dyw7pvG4OQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqJYmXdvnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwU_rw6Ikm0
One of my horses was in the 4th race in the "whole card" video from 1984; never knew about the video.. not a big thrill as he finished 5th or so...but thanks for linking it.
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Roosevelt
Balmoral
Pompano
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Pompano
Freehold and
The meadowlands
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Hollywood Park
Brandywine
Liberty Bell
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Maywood
Sportsman's
Hawthorne
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Roosevelt (when it was demolished my wife paid a crew member and they went up with her to the clubhouse and dismantled the box seats on the finish line we used to sit in almost every racenight for 15 years and she gave them to me for our next anniversary. We kept them till we moved from Long Island to Seattle. Great track and great memories as an owner and a patron.)
Blue Bonnets (went there on my honeymoon in early April of 1967; great clubhouse dining setup with really attractive young girls taking our bets at the table!! Food and racing were both enjoyable, but doubled the cost of my honeymoon.)
Green Mountain (had a wonderful trainer in New England, Billy Silk, who would handle all of our young-uns and the ones recovering from injuries... would build them up and then race them at Hinsdale and/or Green Mountain, but Green Mountain was in a much nicer setting.)
I guess I could add a 4th now...Freehold. Yes, it had its "issues" but Anthony Abbatiello handled my "2nd tier" horses and when I would come out to his farm we would go to the American Hotel, which had the best Mac & Cheese in the World..and then to the track. He was a real horseman...lots of great stories and too many horses that had to race there instead of the Big M, RR or YR (or Garden State when it was open).
You posted the Roosevelt Raceway story last year under a different name. Thanks !!!
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^ thought I read it somewhere lol
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You posted the Roosevelt Raceway story last year under a different name. Thanks !!!
I remember reading it and am sure it was under the same name.
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Pompano, Pompano, Pompano
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Pompano, Pompano, Pompano
Yes! And when you live down here year it's even tougher! No live action, and your trainer only brings babies down to break instead of racehorses to race, it isn't as much fun!
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No order but
Jackson harness raceway ( cmon $1 beer night)
Windsor ( vinegar fries)
Raceway park ( cinco demayo restaurant)
Had to add food .. Sorry
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^ thought I read it somewhere lol
Actually, may have posted before, as I don't keep a log of what I post where; however it was NOT under a different name as I have been SeattleSlew from the day I joined this forum, as Mazola has correctly remembered!! However, I am glad you remembered it ;>>)
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Windsor Raceway
Rockingham Park
Scarborough Downs
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Actually, may have posted before, as I don't keep a log of what I post where; however it was NOT under a different name as I have been SeattleSlew from the day I joined this forum, as Mazola has correctly remembered!! However, I am glad you remembered it ;>>)
Yes, I recognize your name & knew I read that somewhere.
What a good story, sad how many tracks we have lost
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Sportsmans, Balmoral, and Washington Park. (I still have hopes for Balmoral.)
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How in the world is Balmoral going to come back?
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Pompano, Pompano, Pompano
When you came down to race at pompano, the weather was the primary consideration. If you broke even, you did well!
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Roosevelt
Hindsdale
Atlantic City