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Originally Posted by Tom
What else is gone now?
Turf and Sport Digest was a go(o)d one.
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Somebody recently gave me two copies of Turf and Sport Digest from 1945, and from 1950.
One has Heliopolis on the cover, while in the back it has some "rating" for what must be thousands of individual horse names of the time, including Noor and Citation.
It also has "Public Handicappers' Standings", listing
Hermis, Sweep, Trackman, and Analyst and their tabulated results from several different circuits.
Even
Jockey Ratings for perhaps 200 riders - Shoemaker was top-rated.
Track Records for most of the major tracks:
LOL - the fastest 5 1/2-fur record there was 1:03 1/5 at Tropical Park and the only place to undercut 1:09 for 6 furs was Golden Gate with 1:08 1/5.
All of that along with handicapping book reviews, lots of
Horses to Watch, and the standard bragging about large win payoffs.
