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09-20-2014, 06:17 PM
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Anyone mention Green Mountain, Pownal, VT?
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I think they closed pre 1986 at least for thoroughbreds.
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09-20-2014, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueShoe
Tanforan.
Aqua Caliente.
Bay Meadows.
Fairplex.
Hollywood Park.
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I've been to the Tanforan Mall that occupies the land of the old Tanforan racetrack. Does that count? :-)
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09-21-2014, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by levinmpa
I've been to the Tanforan Mall that occupies the land of the old Tanforan racetrack. Does that count? :-)
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And I've been to the Polo Park Mall and the Lansdowne Park Shopping Centre. Must be a common pattern.
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09-21-2014, 12:54 AM
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Jefferson Downs in Kenner, La (suburb of New Orleans)...where my dad made my first horsie bets ever for me.
They kept the grandstand open for simulcast for a few years, but it's now a condo development (with an OTB right next door...and a casino right around the corner on Lake Pontchartrain).
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09-21-2014, 02:22 AM
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Originally Posted by wisconsin
Prescott Downs
Anthony Downs
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Eureka Downs, KS
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09-21-2014, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by levinmpa
I've been to the Tanforan Mall that occupies the land of the old Tanforan racetrack. Does that count? :-)
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Nope, not quite. The year I was there, George Taniguchi was the leading rider, that's how long ago that was. 
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09-21-2014, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour
Jefferson Downs in Kenner, La (suburb of New Orleans)...where my dad made my first horsie bets ever for me.
They kept the grandstand open for simulcast for a few years, but it's now a condo development (with an OTB right next door...and a casino right around the corner on Lake Pontchartrain).
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Where you at in South La?
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09-21-2014, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour
Jefferson Downs in Kenner, La (suburb of New Orleans)...where my dad made my first horsie bets ever for me.
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Yeah; night racing, as I recall. Went there once back in 1964 when I was stationed in Biloxi, MS. Lost all night, then got picked up for speeding through NOLA with my '59 Chevy, and spent the night in the pokey.
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09-21-2014, 04:02 PM
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C'est Tout
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Originally Posted by pele polo
Where you at in South La?
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Used to live in New Orleans off Robert E Lee Blvd (how's that for a southern stereotype?)...but now I'm a Katrina transplant living in Cajunland, Lafayette
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09-21-2014, 05:18 PM
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More that come to mind....
Marlboro (Upper Marlboro, MD)
Playfair (Spokane, WA)
Kamloops (Kamloops, BC)
Salem (OR)
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09-21-2014, 06:14 PM
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The second horse I claimed was at Solano (Vallejo, CA). She was claimed off me a couple of months later at Bay Meadows. Both tracks now history.
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09-21-2014, 06:19 PM
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Saw some old black and whites from a track in Cumberland, MD that no longer exists
The Cumberland Race Track (1924-1961), also known as the Fairgo Race Track, was located just outside the west side of Cumberland, Maryland along McMullen Highway at the location of the present day Allegany County Fairgrounds
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09-21-2014, 08:20 PM
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Ascot Park in Akron.
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09-21-2014, 08:47 PM
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Every now and then I drive by in the laurel area on rt 1 freestate raceway......would love some info on that place of anybody has any stories
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09-21-2014, 11:34 PM
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Half a century ago there was even a racetrack, a half miler I believe, that only had a short life, 1963-1966, in Las Vegas. It was called Thunderbird Downs.
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