Quad City Downs

[GOAT]

Are they talking about rebuilding Quad City Downs?

[theokodjak26]

Why would anyone do that unless you want to lose millions of dollars.

[Angelo Bralles]

Are they talking about rebuilding Quad City Downs?

stop busting balls. My heydays were all at the downs.

[Legal Larry K]

Where in the hell is this track?

[Bernie Madoff]

Where in the hell is this track?

East Moline ,Illinois. Back in the day, their handle was about the same as Cumberland.

[rainman2]

East Moline ,Illinois. Back in the day, their handle was about the same as Cumberland.

How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?

[Meadow Ford]

How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?

Ask Dave Magee and Tony Morgan they both had stables there.

[Bernie Madoff]

How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?

They had $900 - $3000 purses. Magee and Morgan started their careers there.

[titans1127]

How many years did this track operate if there was minimal handle and what was the purse structure?

1973-1993 then as an OTB until January 2015.

[Meadow Ford]

When QCD/EMD raced on Sunday afternoons they were the only game in IL.
Sundays they had some good IL Bred Stakes races.
That would bring Busse, Banks, Graham, Harmer, and many good Chicago horses and drivers.
It was a great place to race.
Family atmosphere!

[Angelo Bralles]

Ask Dave Magee and Tony Morgan they both had stables there.

Dave Magee was a bust there. Tony Mo was the leading driver there. Tom Simmons was the man.

[GOAT]

That place was a _hithole. Anyone that would allow John Searle to drive there had rocks in their head.

[Meadow Ford]

Anyone that would allow John Searle to drive there had rocks in their head.

John was more then OK when on a live catch drive.
It was on the horses that he trained that earned him the moniker
"Hub Rail Johnny"!
Just call me.
"Rocks in his head"

[IL guy is retired]

As a former QCD'er who now lives in the QC again, this stuff just is hilarious.  Every so often this topic has to come up because the place sits there, dilapidated to all get out. It WAS fun to race and do all what we did, but peeps, the "Moline" plant isn't viable and will never be. The ONLY shot it would have is if someone won the lottery and decided to make it a training center. I will say this though, a LOT of very prominent people came through that place at one time or another. I drive past there often, telling people its been close for 31 years now. Great memories. That's it.

[seriously]

I fuckin' loved that place!

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