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...Speedy Scot: the $91,381.71 Realization Trot, a 1 1/16-mile stakes event for four-year-olds, at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Driver Ralph Baldwin maneuvered the 1-to-5 favorite into first place at the half-mile pole, sat back and let him breeze home a length ahead, thus making Speedy Scot the first standardbred to retire the Founder's Plate, awarded to the horse that wins major stakes races at the Roosevelt at two, three and four years...
...Overtrick: the $50,000 International Pace at New York's Yonkers Raceway, in 3 min., 3 4/5 sec., only 2/5 sec. off the world pacing record for 1½ miles. The victory squashed rumors that Overtrick had gone lame, added $25,000 to the big bay colt's lifetime earnings, which now amount...
...bookie's back room, the little guy who beats the big system is an odds-on favorite to become a national hero. And so, when an aptly titled long shot named Historic Value won the ninth harness race one night last week at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, the holder of the winning $132,232.80 ticket was hailed by every $2 bettor as the man of the hour...
...Roosevelt Raceway management did all it could to make the customers comfortable. Crews worked around the clock to clear 7 in. of snow from the track and the 250-acre parking lot (at a cost of $10,000); 146 infra-red heaters burned above the seats, and low-pressure blowers swirled lukewarm air around the feet of the standees in back...
...security chief and onetime chief of New York City's 20,000 uniformed police, dropped dead of a heart attack. For more than an hour the battle raged on. When it was finally quelled, 35 people were injured, 15 fans were arrested, and damage to Roosevelt Raceway was estimated at more than...