Word: raceways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd, and he liked uncooked artichokes. But there was nothing effete about France's six-year-old Jamin as he recovered from breaking stride right after the start, overpowered the field in the stretch to win the $50,000 International Trot at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway...
From a vast, air-conditioned restaurant with sweeping glass windows, thin, tanned women and fat, pale men peered over thick steaks and cool drinks at the dirt track below. Roosevelt Raceway, the orange-and-magenta pleasure dome at Westbury, N.Y. was having its biggest harness-racing season in history. A record $144 million had been bet in the first 82 days of the meeting. For the highlight Messenger Stake* prize money had reached $108,565, making it the richest pacing race of all time...
...Heel colts. Their first and third took $67,310.62 of the total purse. Also in the money in fourth and fifth place: Adios' sons Raider Frost and Adios Paul. Quipped the New York News's Wes Gaffer: "One more stakes victory and Trainer Del Miller owns Roosevelt Raceway...
...Right after he qualified two colts for Roosevelt Raceway's $108,565 Messenger Stake, one of harness racing's richest, Trainer-Driver Del Miller learned that he himself would be watching the race from the stands. For driving last year's Messenger winner Meadow Lands "in a manner inconsistent with an attempt to win," Miller was set down for 15 days. "As far as I'm concerned," he sulked, "I do not plan to be seen in a sulky at Roosevelt even after my suspension...
Died. Benjamin Franklin White, 85, patriarch of harness racing, only four-time winner of trotting's highest honor, the Hambletonian; in Orlando, Fla. Ontario-born Ben White started wintering horses in Florida during the '205, founded Orlando's municipally owned Ben White Raceway, harness racing's winter-training capital...