They should reopen the following harness raceways

[amityvilleboy]

Sportmans Park
Balmoral original
and purchase Monticello Raceway from the current owners
put 5 million into refurbish and race at nite
w Sunday matinee

[SAW]

Sportmans Park
Balmoral original
and purchase Monticello Raceway from the current owners
put 5 million into refurbish and race at nite
w Sunday matinee

Isn't Sportsman Park a Target now?

[Jctoronto]

Long gone but..

Up here in canada....blue bonnets harness in monteal and its summer track richilieu....love d em both.

And one unique place that didnt last long...Phoenix Trottong Track.  A spaceage look....but too far from city
In the mid 60s.    Since demolished

[chief yogi]

how about green mountain and hinsdale. both were great tracks. green mountain grandstand was so clean you could eat off the floor.

[TW]

Garden State Park.  I used to find some value there.

[Jctoronto]

Garden State ..of course.  And yes to value chances there.


Here in Toronto, Greenwood always THE terrific 5/8 city joint..long gone now (though big teletheater was part of monster redevelopment project there near lake ontario)

Before my 'travelling time'..and before there was a Flamboro there was a Garden City (st catherines)...down the QEW from Toronto

And always, the past fave..Windsor Raceway. All gone now
Always playing to southwestern Ontario and u.s.crossing the bridge from Detroit.  Big crowds in the heyday..and terrific dining for sure.  Saturday doubleheaders...
I worked there one early 80's winter..Marty Adler a strong call and6 the young up and comer, Frank Salive, who calls 'em at Fort Erie

[old guy]

Isn't Sportsman Park a Target now?

Brandywine is now a Target

[eyeinthesky]

Here in Toronto, Greenwood always THE terrific 5/8 city joint..long gone now

Before my 'travelling time'..and before there was a Flamboro there was a Garden City (st catherines)...down the QEW from Toronto

And always, the past fave..Windsor Raceway. All gone now
 

As old as you seem to be , why didn't you mention Orangeville and Barrie and Goderich, and Sudbury, and Elmira , and Bellevile and Kingstons' Frontenac Downs, Connaught ( which became Hippodrome de Aylmer, and Sherbrooke Raceway

[June b]

Lewiston Raceway there's nothing like racing on Winters in Lewiston LOL

[carl baldwin]

Sportmans Park
Balmoral original
and purchase Monticello Raceway from the current owners
put 5 million into refurbish and race at nite
w Sunday matinee

Sportsmans Park is now Wirtz Beverage Group.

[Tony k]

Garden State ..of course.  And yes to value chances there.


Here in Toronto, Greenwood always THE terrific 5/8 city joint..long gone now (though big teletheater was part of monster redevelopment project there near lake ontario)

Before my 'travelling time'..and before there was a Flamboro there was a Garden City (st catherines)...down the QEW from Toronto

And always, the past fave..Windsor Raceway. All gone now
Always playing to southwestern Ontario and u.s.crossing the bridge from Detroit.  Big crowds in the heyday..and terrific dining for sure.  Saturday doubleheaders...
I worked there one early 80's winter..Marty Adler a strong call and6 the young up and comer, Frank Salive, who calls 'em at Fort Erie

[Tony k]

Marty Adler, nicest guy you would ever want to meet.

[Jctoronto]

Eyeinthesky..

Of course there were others that were sweet but are long gone.

North of Toronto, south of Barrie, now stands Georgian Downs..but before that Barrie Raceway was a must go if you could...made a couple trips up there over the years..incl. one very rainy sat. night.  Being right down on rail, the halfmile mud was deep and magical at same time. I think Bill Cass had winning trotter in opener..does 2.11.00 sound about right...fun.. Wouldnt want to be anywhere else.

Orangeville, about an hr. northwest of the city, the home if the walkers the mcclures the whites..a wonderful sunday afternoon experience . again, i went a couple of times..first time our dad brought us all once for a cold january sunday afternoon ride..i had just started messing around with betting the horses..i remember standing in a two foot snowbank up the track with my brothers and sisters as they were coming down the stretch..a big loud crowd for sure.
The orange grandstand was the place to be.

Only time to kingston frotenac downs..it was closed...but we were in a slo pitch tournament on the infield balldiamond.

One more that jogs memory
..lived in dartmouth nova scotia. In 77- 78...again father brought us out there to big crowd sunday aft. Place called Sackville Downs...i think the Sobey legend started there
I remembered standing at the walled off '10 dollar window' to hear what the 'big rollers' were playing..lol.
(((one other odd footnote from that place, now condos or something....ther e was a rainy thursday night and a horse named Francisco Irv..somthing like that..won without a dollar bet on him to win.   Has THAT ever happened since?))......and these kinds of personal stories..stories from the rail with family and friends is why we are so passionate about horseracing. For both good..and bad.

--ill leave like leamington (still going) tales and bluebonnets montreal catastrophic promotion afternoon story and my father still has Secratariat's last race 2 dollar win ticket..he didnt cash from his final appearance here at Woodbine at the in 73., moment for another time.