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delayjf
05-08-2015, 12:15 PM
Stumbled on this site the other day and just love it. Provides a lot of historical information and pictures of many US racetracks that are currently in operation and that have closed. I got a kick out of going thru the Massachusetts section which included the Massachusetts State fair circuit. If you’re into horse racing history at all you will love this site as well. Enjoy

http://www.horseracing-tracks.com/tracks/sindex.htm

thespaah
05-08-2015, 12:41 PM
Stumbled on this site the other day and just love it. Provides a lot of historical information and pictures of many US racetracks that are currently in operation and that have closed. I got a kick out of going thru the Massachusetts section which included the Massachusetts State fair circuit. If you’re into horse racing history at all you will love this site as well. Enjoy

http://www.horseracing-tracks.com/tracks/sindex.htm
I looked at New York...There is a track missing.
It opened as Parr Meadows, a quarterhorse track off exit 70 on the Long Island Expressway.
Being that far from the more heavily populated western end of Long Island and of course NYC, crowds were small as was handle. I think the track changed owners a few times. it was called Suffolk Meadows before it met its demise.
As much as I can't stand wiki...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Meadows

Greyfox
05-08-2015, 12:43 PM
Interesting site.
Thank you for posting that delayjf. :ThmbUp:

delayjf
05-08-2015, 02:06 PM
I looked at New York...There is a track missing.
It opened as Parr Meadows, a quarterhorse track off exit 70 on the Long Island Expressway.
Being that far from the more heavily populated western end of Long Island and of course NYC, crowds were small as was handle. I think the track changed owners a few times. it was called Suffolk Meadows before it met its demise.
As much as I can't stand wiki...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Meadows

You should email him regarding Suffolk Meadows. He openly solicits comments.

LottaKash
05-08-2015, 02:23 PM
Stumbled on this site the other day and just love it. Provides a lot of historical information and pictures of many US racetracks that are currently in operation and that have closed. I got a kick out of going thru the Massachusetts section which included the Massachusetts State fair circuit. If you’re into horse racing history at all you will love this site as well. Enjoy

http://www.horseracing-tracks.com/tracks/sindex.htm

Thanks for the link "delayjf"... :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

Down memory lane for me....I have been to so many of those places...The photo's and such, are a treasure chest for those who still have the passion for, and the memories of, those places..

johnhannibalsmith
05-08-2015, 02:55 PM
Cool indeed... enjoyed looking at the old Prescott Downs program in the AZ section and seeing some familiar names... including Eddie-O Tellez riding a two-feeefty for one Robert Baffert.

HalvOnHorseracing
05-08-2015, 03:20 PM
If you want to read an interesting story about the match race between Mollie Mc Carthy and Ten Broeck, it is at http://halveyonhorseracing.com/?p=1553

It is about the last of the great four-milers and the race that put CD on the map. Lots of history about the opening of CD and some interesting characters - Meriwether Lewis Clark, Lucky Baldwin

Worth a read

jahura2
05-08-2015, 03:49 PM
Stumbled on this site the other day and just love it. Provides a lot of historical information and pictures of many US racetracks that are currently in operation and that have closed. I got a kick out of going thru the Massachusetts section which included the Massachusetts State fair circuit. If you’re into horse racing history at all you will love this site as well. Enjoy

http://www.horseracing-tracks.com/tracks/sindex.htm

Awesome link delayjf. You helped me waste away a slow Friday afternoon at work!

delayjf
05-08-2015, 05:58 PM
Same here, the more I dug the more I could stop exploring. I'm a nostagic fool. This got me thru to happy hour.

RaceBookJoe
05-10-2015, 01:53 PM
Thanks for that link. I loved Berkshire and Great Barrington when I went there as a kid. That story on Thunder Ridge in the KY section always makes me chuckle when I read it.

Cratos
05-10-2015, 02:09 PM
Stumbled on this site the other day and just love it. Provides a lot of historical information and pictures of many US racetracks that are currently in operation and that have closed. I got a kick out of going thru the Massachusetts section which included the Massachusetts State fair circuit. If you’re into horse racing history at all you will love this site as well. Enjoy

http://www.horseracing-tracks.com/tracks/sindex.htm
A great link that provides some very useful and interesting information; both DRF and Equibase should have this info on their websites

happy camper
05-10-2015, 07:55 PM
I never knew they had harness racing at AC Racecourse.

happy camper
05-10-2015, 08:00 PM
Oh, and thank you for introducing me to this site!

elhelmete
05-10-2015, 08:09 PM
Great stuff!

Just saw that a horse named OXBOW won the first TB race ever in VT (Green Mtn).

OTM Al
05-10-2015, 08:41 PM
Hate to be a party pooper, but it is full of inaccuracies. For example, he says the Travers is the oldest stakes race in N. America. That honor actually belongs to the Phoenix at Keeneland and oldest continuously run is the Queen's Plate. Then he confuses Coney Island the place with the Coney Island Jockey Club (whose courses were not on Coney Island). That is just the beginning of the NY bit. Could be really good but needs to research facts. Wikipedia is more accurate and that is sad.

SandyW
05-10-2015, 10:29 PM
I never knew they had harness racing at AC Racecourse.

Pretty big in the 60's, I spent many nights trying to win at AC harness.

affirmedny
05-11-2015, 12:34 AM
I never knew they had harness racing at AC Racecourse.

yes, and it was a 5/8 track that cut through the infield of the regular course.