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!

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.

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.

I used to love going to Foxboro. John Hogan was "the man" there! LOL! My brother lives in Brockton, MA so it was a pretty quick ride there.

Never saw Foxboro as a hmt, only when made it a 5/8 but kept the tight hmt turns. Quite a long stretch. Shame how they let the grandstand run down in its final stages, much like Roosevelt Raceway.

Any updates from the Ohio State Racing Commission to their investigation into the death of Mike Mike and the quick disposal of this animal??  I’m sure there is so much cooperation from the enablers of this business. The yellowness and lack of accountability in this business is sickening?  At the end of the day, we have reaped what has been sowed in this business.  A day of reckoning will come! It’s understood it must be outside the current system. Shame shame shame!

The horse has no one standing up for them in all of these jurisdictions. Ohio is the Wild Wild West!

The day has long past. Handle is dwindling to a number that makes it more or less irrelevant. All the small and medium size breeders are gone or are in the process while many of the major farms cull their mares or close shop. The contraction in the number of racetracks in the past decade is beyone alarming, it's downright freightening. And while it's now our turn down here in Ohio and Kentucky to make a go of it from an injection of slot money, if we don't get it right we will suffer the same fate as Jersey and Ontario. My take is nothing will happen because there is, and never has been, any uniformity in the sport. From different jursidictions caring only about their best interested to the division between horsemen to the ineptness of the local governing authorities. Wish I had better news to report to you but this local event in Ohio is just the latest example of why we have run this wonderful sport into the ground.