Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign on the big board said the track was fast. I loked up at the cloudy sky. Twenty-four American flags whipped in the wind at the top of the grandstand, and eleven more flapped in semi-circle in the parking lot. It was early; the big crowds hadn't come...
...noon the stands were beginning to fill up. Old men and young boys were hawking the Record American, the Herald Traveler, and WilsonWaldo's tip cards at makeshift newsstands underneath the grandstand. I bought a program and walked outside to look at the track...
Upstairs in the grandstand the straw-hatted ushers wearing candycane coats check the tickets of people going into the box-seat section. Most of the trainers and owners reserve box seats in the first few rows. I wandered towards the upper tiers of seats, which are reserved for plebcians and tight-wads...
Suspended over the grandstand seats is a red iron walkway leading to a structure that looks like a red caboose. Inside are the press box, the stewards' box, the photo-finish darkroom, and the announcer...
...announcer must give a running description of the race because without binoculars most of the people in the grandstand can't determine the order of the horses. "To be able to identify the horses is a bit of a knack." Hannon said. He identifies them by the colors of the jockey and the color and build of the horses. A good announcer can glance at the colors listed in the program before a race and be able to distinguish the horses five minutes later. Hannon is a good announcer...