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02-07-2016, 03:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2015
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2/7/1992 last issue of the Racing Times..
Today 24 years ago was the last issue of the Racing Times if anyone has any issues I would gladly buy.
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02-07-2016, 03:44 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
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Wow. 24 years since the game did anything for the customers!
I bought the last two issues, but have no idea where they are.
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02-07-2016, 04:16 PM
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Refugee from Bowie
Join Date: Nov 2007
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I leased several newsstands in the major Philadelphia hotels at that time and have every copy of the Racing Times from #1 of April 13 through the end February 7. I kept them after I made a nice profit selling loads of the last edition of The Morning Telegraph in the 1970's along with editions of the Armstrong Daily and the Evening Bulletin.
Everything is for sale at a price.
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02-07-2016, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: dunmore,pa
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that was like heaven when it came out vs drf,, miss it eventhough the form pps have alot of the racing times pp inovations
in them now..
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02-08-2016, 02:02 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: South Jersey
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I've got the last issue too but I don't wish to sell it.
I'd only lose the money on a slow horse. 
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02-10-2016, 02:15 AM
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what an easy game.
Join Date: Dec 2002
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24 years. Here's to my good friend who moved there from the ny times to be an editor. A good newsman and a good editor.to you Evan, now also gone and missed.
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02-10-2016, 08:18 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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I have the 1st 6 issues. Arlington Park, maybe many other tracks too, gave away complimentary Racing Times during it's 1st week of publication. I liked the RT but it's format just didn't work as well as the tabloid DRF considering the wind we often have here in Chicagoland.
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02-10-2016, 08:49 AM
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Scum Bum!
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Lexington, KY
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On occasion, we'd get the old newspaper style Eastern Edition of DRF here. I'd buy them just because they were a different format, and I'd never seen comment lines in the PP's, and I saved them.
I wanted to like the RT, and have a few of those saved--not the last one unfortunately--but it just wasn't the Form, and I couldn't get the feel for it.
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02-10-2016, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Queens, NY
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I have a few issues from big race days, but I don't want to sell any.
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02-10-2016, 02:47 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Floral Park, NY
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Are they any archived versions online? I'd love to see how the PP's were presented in the Racing Times.
Last edited by Ghostzapper04; 02-10-2016 at 02:48 PM.
Reason: spelling
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02-10-2016, 04:13 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
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Yep, it was a great publication. I remember going to Great Barrington Fair and figuring there was no way they would be selling the Racing Times there. Lo and Behold, they had it for the Fair races.
First ones to put in claiming conditions which was a key to betting the smaller tracks at that time.
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02-11-2016, 08:17 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NJ
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Ghostzapper04
Are they any archived versions online? I'd love to see how the PP's were presented in the Racing Times.
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The DRF eventually incorporated most of the Racing Times' differences in presentation---after all, Steve Crist edited the Racing Times and later was CEO at DRF---so the PPs wouldn't seem all that revolutionary now, though they were at the time.
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02-11-2016, 08:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Connecticut
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Any idea how long THE MORNING TELEGRAPH has been gone? Close to 50 I bet.
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02-11-2016, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Colorado
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The last issue of the Telegraph was April 10, 1972. I still have some Telegraphs down in my basement from 1963 through 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_Telegraph
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02-12-2016, 07:46 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 239
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Thanks. I think a fire put them out of business and they never opened up again.
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