Simone Kruger

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

training center had some stake races there same at were willowbrook mall is now that was a farm too

Correct. Many of the horses racing out of Willowbrook Farms had names with "Hobo" like Hobo Jet and Hobo Wayne.

[Arnold Ziffel]

Correct. Many of the horses racing out of Willowbrook Farms had names with "Hobo" like Hobo Jet and Hobo Wayne.

Yes!! You have to be old like me to remember that!

[Sunmoon 1219]

So all of these tracks are gone now?

[Arnold Ziffel]

So all of these tracks are gone now?

Yes long gone.

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

Yes!! You have to be old like me to remember that!

Yes, I am old. My father took me to Weequahic Park in Newark to watch harness racing. That place was beautiful.

[Arnold Ziffel]

Yes, I am old. My father took me to Weequahic Park in Newark to watch harness racing. That place was beautiful.

I remember Weequahic park in Newark. I was never there I heard about it.

I remember when Secaucus New Jersey was mostly pig farms before the Meadowlands even was thought about. I remember my dad telling me that the mafia would tell a pig farmer not to feed the pigs-hogs for a day and then they would throw dead bodies in the hog pen and they would eat the bones and all. Sorry I got sidetracked lol

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

I remember Weequahic park in Newark. I was never there I heard about it.

I remember when Secaucus New Jersey was mostly pig farms before the Meadowlands even was thought about. I remember my dad telling me that the mafia would tell a pig farmer not to feed the pigs-hogs for a day and then they would throw dead bodies in the hog pen and they would eat the bones and all. Sorry I got sidetracked lol

That whole area was dumping grounds for chemical waste. When they built the Harmon Cove Condos in Secaucus, they found thousands of lead container drums. The NY mob would dump bodies there because you just had to travel through the Lincoln Tunnel and you were there. The Jersey mob would dump their bodies in Budd Lake and Lake Hopatcong.

[Arnold Ziffel]

That whole area was dumping grounds for chemical waste. When they built the Harmon Cove Condos in Secaucus, they found thousands of lead container drums. The NY mob would dump bodies there because you just had to travel through the Lincoln Tunnel and you were there. The Jersey mob would dump their bodies in Budd Lake and Lake Hopatcong.

Gas pipe lived in Mount Olive/Bud Lake. You’re right on the money that whole area was contaminated.

[Sunmoon 1219]

So basically knowone will ever know horses raced there or it even existed. Pretty sad the passage of time

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

So basically knowone will ever know horses raced there or it even existed. Pretty sad the passage of time

The half mile track is still at Weequahic Park. They put rubber pellets on it and made a jog track for people.

[Arnold Ziffel]

So basically knowone will ever know horses raced there or it even existed. Pretty sad the passage of time

I was thinking the same thing when you walk through Willowbrook Mall who would ever think it was a training center.

[Sunmoon 1219]

That’s sad