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...Friday night crowd at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway was in a festive mood. In the grandstand, beer cans rattled and pari-mutuel machines beat a steady thunk, thunk, thunk. In the Cloud Casino, champagne corks popped and waiters served steaks. For some, it was just a night at the races. But most were drawn there by a fantasy of instant wealth...
...revel of hot-rodders at Indianapolis' Raceway Park that took 25 state troopers to control...
...wrecked the cars. At the Dutch Grand Prix in 1960, the brakes failed on his British-built BRM; the car hurtled off the track killing a spectator and breaking Gurney's left arm. Nowhere has Gurney's luck been worse than at his home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race, but his Chevrolet was disqualified for being "gutted" to reduce its weight. Last October, Gurney was leading the Riverside Grand Prix when a 10? part broke on his Lotus, costing him victory...
Most successful of three racing brothers (the others: Vernon, 39, and Harold, 50), Stanley Dancer drove his first sulky at 17 at New Jersey's back-country Freehold Raceway. He wore borrowed silks, splurged $200 of 4-H Club prize money on a filly pacer, and lost the race. But the bug was there-and within five years, the man who loaned him the racing outfit was working for Dancer...
...late teens, Dancer worked as a groom, mucking out stalls at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, and got himself a cot in the racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...