I used to go to the harness tracks 5x a week and bet pretty good

[JL52]

Forgot to mention Taunton dog tracks.
Agree the Maine drivers are better than the non-stakes drivers in Kentucky. But, damn, a lot of the horses in Maine, when you pull them, they just don’t have the energy to go forward. Tough for an up and coming driver to look good when there is no horsepower pulling him.

[old guy]

plus Lincoln Downs,primarily a tbred track, also it had a brief harness meet, and later the dogs. Plus Narragansett, strictly for the tbreds. A host of dog tracks, too, like Seabrook, Belmont ( a dog track in NH), Wonderland, Raynham, Plainfield. Been to all mentioned by Dougie and by me, except Wonderland and Belmont.. Total prob nearing 120 across US and Canada, probably half are long gone.

Lincoln Downs one and only harness meet was an experience.

[dougie]

Better drivers in Maine right now compared to Kentucky (non stakes race drivers).

I agree with that. I did watch a full card from there and didn't know many of the names there. I did notice some guy named Marvin Luna win with some big prices.

[dougie]

Brandywine, Liberty Bell, and Garden State was my circuit, had very good racing at one time, all long gone.

I loved Liberty Bell. Eddie Davis was the 'big gun" when we used to go there.

[dougie]

Forgot to mention Taunton dog tracks.
Agree the Maine drivers are better than the non-stakes drivers in Kentucky. But, damn, a lot of the horses in Maine, when you pull them, they just don’t have the energy to go forward. Tough for an up and coming driver to look good when there is no horsepower pulling him.

Living in Maine gives me a unique prospective on racing here. It's bad! LOL!

[dougie]

when i went to foxboro it was night,, dark driving back into boston. no gps back then. ended up in roxbury [the harlem of nyc]. was happy getting back on track [pun] into fenway square. heyy was young once. loved every minute of it !!

Foxboro was old and dumpy but the racing was good. My brother lived directly across from Fenway Park in an area called Jamaica Plains. Was a rough area too! Now the areas over there are all "regentrified" with yuppies and dotcom millionaires living there. LOL!

[Kole Hanover]

New England lost Rockihgham, Foxboro, Suffolk Downs, Green Mountain, Lewiston, Scarborough Downs, Hinsdale, and a few more i'm sure I left out.

 Hated to see Rockingham Park, Foxboro, & Scarborough Downs go

[dougie]

Hated to see Rockingham Park, Foxboro, & Scarborough Downs go

Me too! I loved Rockingham. I used to chat with Peter Fuller in the clubhouse restaurant when his daughter Abigail used to ride there. Nice guy.