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Harness racing at the Bay State Raceway in Foxboro through August...
...racing at the Bay State Raceway in Foxboro through August...
...Never at a loss for a grandiose idea, Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon William Zeclcendorf, boss of the widespread Webb & Knapp empire, acquired a controlling interest in Yonkers Raceway for International Recreation Corp., a Webb & Knapp affiliate. Estimated cost: $17 million. Zeckendorf's avowed intention is to build a geodesic dome over the track to make it a year-round sports arena. More likely, he will merge the profitable Yonkers with International in order to write off the losses on International's Freedomland amusement park, which has yet to show a profit. Always in need of ready cash, Zeckendorf...
...Adios Butler, world's fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...
...used to be the rubes' sport, shunned by city sophisticates but drawing as many as 2,500,000 fans a year at hundreds of fairgrounds across the U.S. Today, thanks to such swank night tracks as Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, harness racing is thriving on cosmopolitan crowds and city slickers anxious to make a $2 wager. Last year it was an $819 million business, drawing 15 million spectators and dishing out $32 million in purses to the cream of 17,702 trotters and pacers...