Today's History - August 7th
On this date in 1874 Goldsmith Maid trotted a world record 2:15 1/4 at Buffalo.
On this date in 1900 trainer "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons had his first stakes winner, Agnes D., at Brighton Beach.
On this date in 1988 jockey Eddie Delahoussaye won his 4,000th race aboard a two-year-old filly named Fawn and Hahn in the fourth race at Del Mar.
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