Word: oaklawn
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...done on races beamed in by satellite from the major tracks in New York, Florida, Louisiana and California, the regulars watch all of the races--including the ones happening 50 feet away--on television. The tracks have names which are alternately pastoral and geriatric: the Fair Grounds, Bay Meadows, Oaklawn Park, Turf Paradise. Races go off like firecrackers on the Fourth, and watching four big-screen TVs and handicapping four sets of horses simultaneously induces a curiously pleasurable dizziness. I've seen a hobbled man pushing 80 scream for the duration of one race at Laurel, sling...