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Unlike Californians, New Englanders are traditionally hard-headed and closefisted. That generations of economic inhibitions have turned them at last into a race of spendthrifts is the conclusion implicit in the way they are currently patronizing New England's four new race tracks, Rockingham Park, Agawam, Suffolk Downs and Narragansett Park...
...came into the stretch last week at Rockingham Park Race Track (near Salem, N. H.) the urchin who was riding Quick Step scarcely heard the crowd at the rail yelling, "Come on, Westrope." Jockey Westrope paid more attention to the pounding of hoofs coming up closer and closer behind him, made by Bun D, with Jockey Porter up. He drew his whip, leaned forward in his stirrup, almost lifted Quick Step across the finish line-still ahead by barely a nose. It was the second race that Jockey Westrope had won that afternoon. It brought his record for the year...
ISAAC S. LONDON Editor Post-Dispatch Rockingham...
Emanuel. In Northamptonshire, England, at 800-year-old Rockingham Castle which they have leased for the past three years and where the yews are cut to resemble a herd of elephants, Mr. & Mrs. Victor Emanuel?he is president of United States Electric Power Corp.?gave a ball one night last week to 500 guests...