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General Category => Nostalgia => Topic started by: Meadow Ford on August 31, 2023, 08:12:56 PM
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Is Magnolia Park a real race track?
Did I just make it up?
Did they race Dogs, Tbreds or Harness?
If so, when?
Where is it?
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1. It was so you didn't make it up.
2. They tried harness in 1954 .. it didn't take. they renamed it Jefferson Downs it and it went to Tbreds before burning down. John Henry won his maiden there in 1977
It started in Metairie Louisiana and ended up in Kenner a suburb of New Orleans.
Wasn't easy to find this stuff either.
I have a crapload of 1916 American Breeders standardbred magazines. I could probably find some super hard to answer questions if I'm in the mood to waste some time.
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Corey Lanerie won the last race ever there on 11/22/92. Long career for Lanerie
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Try finding this!
Magnolia Park
March 21 1956
Provo's Luck
Cloth hats on the drivers
Open wheels on the wooden sulkys
Who was the driver?
Picture hangs in his barn.
Need a 1956 year book?
You can borrow mine.
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I have a crapload of 1916 American Breeders standardbred magazines. I could probably find some super hard to answer questions if I'm in the mood to waste some time.
Try me.
Softball question first.
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Check back in a few days, maybe I'll find something interesting that has a name or maybe connections today.
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How about Southern Park? Real track but can you tell me where and when it was active....
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Try me.
Softball question first.
This isin't from that far back but I saw something interesting that probably is a bit harder than softball ... but lets see.
Who was the first stallion that had his semen collected artificially?
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This isin't from that far back but I saw something interesting that probably is a bit harder than softball ... but lets see.
Who was the first stallion that had his semen collected artificially?
Just a wild guess.
I guess it would be a major KY. farm.
Lets go with Castleton Farm and Bret Hanover.
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Nope, earlier. Don't remember where he stood but here's a hint on who. You have a connection to this horse which I didn't realize until after I wrote it. (Not a physical one but a connection none the less)
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Nope, earlier. Don't remember where he stood but here's a hint on who. You have a connection to this horse which I didn't realize until after I wrote it. (Not a physical one but a connection none the less)
You got me!
I have a connection you say.
Meadow Ford was a Tar Heel. Maybe Tar Heel?.
Meadow Ford was bred by Del Miller. Sounds like something Del Miller would promote.
Maybe Adios?
Henry T Adios was an answer to one of my trivia questions.
Maybe it was him?
I am trying to think off other connections.
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You are getting there. Not Adios or one of his sons ... But related to him.
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hal dale
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That's the connection. But not him.
Will give you a give away hint if you still can't figure it out.
One more hint before that one which may or may not help .. I found the info on comments on the pedigree beta database I told everyone about.
I think you saw it but there is a link here in the nostalgia section as I thought that is something that should be preserved and it will go away quick on the main pages. I think it already did and is on the second page now.
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You got me
Help
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OK. Already confirmed Hal Dale is the connection so it's one of his sons. Giveaway hint. What weather event happens in early spring or late fall that causes you to have to worry about your plants?
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Dale Frost Daddy of Meadow Skipper
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You got it. This is the info I read. Didn't connect it to your name "Meadow" Ford until later.
p,1:58m $204,117
Dale Frost was the first standardbred stallion to be collected artificially. From the Harness Racing Museum: Dale Frost, son of Hal Dale-Galloway, was the sire of such great pacers as world champion Meadow Skipper and Fulla Napoleon. He was a top racehorse with career earnings of $204,117. His progeny had 216 wins in 1967 alone, earning well over a half-million dollars and ranking him among the nation's top sires. Dale Frost will always be remembered, though, as the sire of Meadow Skipper, who had such a historic impact on the sport as a producer of pacing champions and sires. Dale Frost died at age seventeen in 1968.
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There is a story out there that Countess Vivian was booked to Adios, but Adios had a fever or something so last minute she was bred to Dale Frost. Result Meadow Skipper.
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Never heard that but the result impacted the industry for decades.
Nowadays there are so many outcross sires that inbreeding is going to really be a thing of the past. Albatross had Hal Dale maternally and paternally and where are his descendants? Niatross and Nihilator did not leave any males to continue the line.