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...same and pocketing the 10% cut. The repeal of the 20% admission tax at race tracks will mean a drop from $4 to $3.50 at Maryland's Bowie Race Course, but there will be no change in the $2 general-admission fee at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway...
...Bret Hanover: the $151,252 Messenger Stakes; at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Backed down by the bettors to odds of 1-5, the three-year-old-bay colt took the lead at the start and stayed there, beating Tuxedo Hanover by half a length to sew up the Triple Crown for pacers (he had already won the Cane Futurity and Little Brown Jug) and record his 45th victory in 48 races...
...Harvard leaders pointed to the fact that the developers of the lucrative site, Stadium Apartments, had been selected without competitive bidding. They also kept mentioning that, of the three principals behind the development concern, one was the former owner of Suffolk Downs and another the present owner of Rockingham Raceway. They insinuated that these men had been big campaign contributors of Collins. Of course, when questioned further, no one had any evidence of any improprieties. Why, they weren't accusing anyone of anything. But the innuendoes they were spreading around the city were about as subtle...
Today, auto racing is the third biggest spectator sport in the U.S. (after basketball and horse racing). In 1964, according to the National Hot Rod Association, 284,043 Americans competed in 1,904 drag-racing events, and they were watched by another 3,312,-542 Americans. Illinois' Meadowdale Raceway, which attracted 50,000 paying customers in all of 1962, almost equaled that in one weekend last year; and California's Riverside Raceway, site of the Grand Prix for Sports Cars, reports that attendance this year is running 14% ahead of 1964 (200,500) and that...
...weeks ago, in Roosevelt Raceway's $35,800 Commodore Pace, Ervin had a scare of a different sort: at the halfway point, a rival ranged up to take the lead. But Bret responded with a burst of speed that carried him across the finish line three-quarters of a length in front. His time for the mile: 1 min. 59 2/5 sec.-a new track record. By comparison, last week's $21,434 Matron Stake at Michigan's Wolverine Raceway was strictly a breeze: ripping through the last 1 mile in 29 sec. flat, Bret whinnied...