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    <title>From Maine to California, these tracks are gone, but not forgotten</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-22T13:42:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The tracks I really miss are the ones in New England that were such a huge part of my life while I majored in Suffolk Downs and minored in economics while a student at Tufts University. There was a time when there were tracks in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Maine. They are all gone, leaving an entire region of the country that once embraced racing without a single track ... my favorite track, maybe of all time, was Suffolk Downs. I had an affinity for a hardscrabble, blue-collar, unpretentious track nestled between oil tanks where much of the racing was conducted during the harsh New England winter. For those who prefer Saratoga, Del Mar, Santa Anita, I don't expect you to understand."]]></description>
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    <title>Summer of nostalgia: That time when horse racing was a sure bet at Marshfield Fair</title>
    <dc:date>2020-08-23T15:26:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Marshfield races had history and personality. Photo-finish prints, fastened to a wire, were sent past the heads of bettors from the top of the grandstand to the steward’s stand on the opposite side of the track. The jockeys and the trainers at Marshfield were either youngsters on their way up or veterans on their way down. After a race, the jockeys had to walk through a crowd of race fans who critiqued their ride in colorful language."]]></description>
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    <title>Back to the future: Fairgrounds, Suffolk Downs reach agreement</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-24T11:01:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Local historian Gary Leveille, who is the archivist for the Great Barrington Historical Society, told the Edge the track is an important part of the town’s history. It’s located only a few hundred feet from the historical society’s headquarters at the Wheeler House. Leveille also shared a personal anecdote about sneaking into a race almost 45 years ago: 'During Fair Week in September of 1973, I was in college and didn’t have much money. My buddy Rich Fitzgerald and I wanted to go to the Barrington Fair, but didn't want to spend our limited funds on tickets to get in. They weren't cheap. So, we borrowed cowboy hats from someone, walked toward the back of the fair where the horses were stabled. We starting talking about Secretariat, the thoroughbred racehorse that won the triple crown that year, and just pretended that we were part of the racing crowd. It worked. Nobody questioned us, and we got in for free.' Reaction from the town has been positive, though it’s not clear what kind of regulatory hurdles SSD will have to clear to get the project green-lighted."]]></description>
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    <title>Why this track is so great</title>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Saratoga is champagne and caviar, champions and history. Great Barrington is sausage-and-pepper subs and Schlitz, beat-up old horses and a notorious past. I love them both." [From 1998]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["... race-fixing seemed more light-humored to me. Perhaps because, as an apprentice, I was to be a chief beneficiary.  During one race, I was able to maintain a larger lead than Secretariat enjoyed in his romp at The Belmont.  I coasted to an easy victory, never uncocking my whip, while my peers in the back argued over who was going to be second.  All of them received lengthy suspensions for their less than sterling performances." Her last win was at Great Barrington on a 17YO gelding.]]></description>
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    <title>Where horses stay young</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-05T23:47:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From 1982: "... a 15-year-old gelding named Dr. Hecker, making the 222d start of his thoroughbred racing career, charges into the first turn past billboard-sized signs whose borders of twinkling red and yellow light bulbs promote exotic American treats such as Fried Dough and Hot Dogs Steamed in Beer. It's that time of year again for Dr. Hecker, a venerable warhorse ineligible now to race at regular tracks but not too old or too slow for the country-fair circuit currently under way in Massachusetts ... Dr. Hecker, once an honest warrior at the mile tracks, has been racing since before Secretariat was foaled. He began his career in 1969, and his 222-race record shows 33 firsts, 51 seconds and 38 thirds, with earnings of $65,541. For his latest country fair victory, he won $920."

More about the fair circuit: "To a romanticist, the fairs might suggest the kind of scenario Hollywood once relished. Horse from wrong side of track meets clandestinely with nondescript mare in secluded pasture. They produce gifted love-child who years later, saddled by alcoholic trainer and ridden brazenly by baby-faced orphan, rises from country fair obscurity to win the big race at Santa Anita or Belmont Park. In reality, the fair circuit represents the end of the line for most of its contestants: an equine slag heap made up of heavily medicated horses who either never had it to begin with or whose onetime class has been dulled by age or infirmities."]]></description>
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    <title>Nostalgic look back at the 'trickery and thievery' of Northampton</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-13T23:54:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Many a soul cricked their necks while standing around the corner from the $50 machines to get a glimpse of what the wise guys were betting."]]></description>
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    <title>Races make return to fairgrounds</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-13T23:11:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Through Aug. 2, Brockton's leading jockey was Howard Lanci, 42, with 30 victories. Seven of them were recorded June 30, and according to the American Racing Manual, that is a single-day record at a Massachusetts fair." Collisions, distractions, records. [2001 NYT article on Brockton fair racing.]
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