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Originally Posted by Redboard
Thoroughbreds haven’t raced at Rockingham for many years, but this thread is a proper tribute to the track and its Lou Smith who had the balls to buy it in 1931 without state-authorized gambling. Known for putting the everyday customer first, when he opened the park in 1933 the grandstand admission was $1 and parking was free; when he died in 1969 the grandstand admission was $1 and parking was free. In 1967 it was New Hampshire’s top tourist attraction with an attendance on over 1 million.
When it was first built in 1906 at a cost of $1 million, the aesthetically attractive track was immediately declared the finest race course in the world. If you'd like more trivia(including Seabiscuit ran there five times without winning; and, in 1960 it was the first track to offer the pick six) about Rockingham this site has a little more than the one mentioned so far:
http://www.rockinghampark.com/history.html |
Agua Caliente in Tijuana was almost certainly the first track in history to offer the pick six, and I have proof that they offered it prior to 1960-- this 1959 newspaper article about a pick five at Hawthorne mentions it:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1...ing-pool-today
EDIT: Here's another article from 1956 that mentions it:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?n...,1850062&hl=en
