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Word: hippodromo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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Usage:

...border. The track, where each spring more than $98,250 is posted for one horserace, is so near California that tourists park Fords and Cadillacs on the U. S. side to avoid the nuisance of search (for liquor) when race day is done. A signpost says AL HIPPODROMO and a long bar under the grandstand dispenses beer and spirits. Otherwise the racetrack and its patrons are markedly Americano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Coffroth yields profits to make jockeys try. Many owners give 10% of the purse to a victorious rider. To this Mr. Coffroth adds $5,000. To the winner's trainer goes $5,000 from the Coffroth coffers. James Wood Coffroth. once a boxing promoter, operates Al Hippodromo. He knows how rich purses (paid in U. S. dollars) whip up the sporting appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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