Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professors, roving-eyed men, grandmas, unworkingmen, stiletto-heeeled tootises, and ordinary crowd material. They mill around the closed-circuit TV's, the long rows of betting windows, the beer and hot dog stands. They wander back and forth eating popcorn, spilling out to the open-air section by the track, crowding against the rail at the finish wire. Some flourish fistfuls of money, looking like scarecrows stuffed with green straw...
...here tomorrow. Most people make it every night. It's a regular thing." As post time approaches for the first race, lines quickly form and disperse at the betting windows. The dogs, donned in colored, numbered blankets, leave the kennels and parade past the grandstand, and around the track to the starting blocks. Meanwhile, the unctuous voice of the announcer calls "Hurry, Hurry, Hurrrry--place your bets." The odds on the big boards in the infield flash rapidly with the changing whims of the crowd. Tension mounts as the hounds poise, leap, speed. The rumbling mob roars and fragments...
...regulars go to the track to watch the dogs. They go to bet. The only trouble with the betting is that there's not much to bet on. In horse racing the sharpie has lots of factors to consider--breeding, physical condition, trainer, jock, how heavily the horse has been raced, the frequency of workouts, times, the kinds of races the horse has been in, as well as his record of wins and losses. With dogs, however, the chances are little better than in a game of bingo...
...down on the scale is, however, one way of judging their chances. These estimates and comparisons of overall records allow handicapers to function above the humiliation level, and a "consensus" estimate is made on each of the races in the handy 35-cent program sold at the track...
Caught up in their own indefatigable chase, the moneychangers in the temple seem far removed from the greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit around the far side of the track...