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saratogadew 12-10-2014 03:31 PM

Day/Night Doubleheaders
 
This Saturday I will be doing the Aqueduct/Meadowlands doubleheader. It got me thinking about the day/night doubleheaders I've done in the past.
Keystone (Parx)/Garden State Park
Monmouth/Meadowlands
Laurel/Rosecroft
Saratoga/Saratoga harness

Anybody else have some good day/nights they've done?

NTamm1215 12-10-2014 03:40 PM

2008 Belmont/Meadowlands on Belmont Stakes day. Quite a brutal doubleheader, but a lot of fun too.

saratogadew 12-10-2014 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTamm1215 (Post 1008588)
2008 Belmont/Meadowlands on Belmont Stakes day. Quite a brutal doubleheader, but a lot of fun too.

Wow! that's impressive. My mind is numb after Belmont Stakes.

Real Quiet 12-10-2014 04:07 PM

Rockingham / Scarborough Downs

Sightseek 12-10-2014 05:59 PM

JCGC Day to Meadowlands (Pegasus S.). Two of my favorite tracks, back to back! :tro:

Rudeboyelvis 12-10-2014 06:42 PM

The Derby Trail Classic:

Tampa Bay Downs - Derby Lanes


;)


I've done the Laurel - Rosecroft one too...Though I refuse to admit how long ago it was :o

tanner12oz 12-10-2014 07:24 PM

Gonna going keeneland/ red mile one of these years

GPK 12-10-2014 07:57 PM

Double headers are nothing. Trifectas are the way to go. I feel a possible Grand Slam at the Tampa reunion in a few months.

Heels1989 12-10-2014 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis (Post 1008609)
The Derby Trail Classic:

Tampa Bay Downs - Derby Lanes


;)


I've done the Laurel - Rosecroft one too...Though I refuse to admit how long ago it was :o

:tro::tro:

I'll add 1990 Summer Squall Preakness / Rosecroft DH

Heels1989 12-10-2014 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GPK (Post 1008614)
Double headers are nothing. Trifectas are the way to go. I feel a possible Grand Slam at the Tampa reunion in a few months.

Golf / TBD / Derby Lane / Hard Rock. :$:

Soaring Softly 12-10-2014 11:59 PM

I remember one time, decades ago, that a bunch of friends and I did Hollywood Park and then went down the freeway to Los Alamitos for the quarter horses. We didn't get there until nearly mid-card, but who cared!

That was some 30 years ago...before drunk driving became the real criminal issue that it is now. We were all three sheets to the wind that night, and I don't know how we got there, and I have no idea how I got home.

All I'm saying is...don't drive drunk. The potential consequences could destroy your life and that of your family as well.

Anyway, I'm surprised actually that I remember that night....going from Hollywood Park to Los Alamitos. I'm not really proud of it.

ScottJ 12-11-2014 06:31 AM

I remember doing the Roosevelt/Roosevelt doubleheader on Saturdays during the Saratoga thoroughbred meeting roughly 35 years back. The afternoon program had a blue cover and and the evening programs sported the standard red cover. (This four week doubleheader season taught me how differently some horses respond to afternoon versus evening racing.)

Also going back to 1977, I can remember doing the afternoon thoroughbred (Aqueduct/Belmont) meeting and then driving eastbound to either Roosevelt or continuing to Parr Meadows for the Quarterhorse meeting. (The Quarters also raced a second time in 1986 at the Parr Meadows facility under the Suffolk Meadows banner.)

ScottJ 12-11-2014 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis (Post 1008609)
The Derby Trail Classic:

Tampa Bay Downs - Derby Lanes

Forgot a really off-beat doubleheader when I was visiting Colorado as the best man at my friend's wedding : Arapahoe Park (afternoon) and Mile Hile (greyhound racing).

saratogadew 12-11-2014 07:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soaring Softly (Post 1008619)
I remember one time, decades ago, that a bunch of friends and I did Hollywood Park and then went down the freeway to Los Alamitos for the quarter horses. We didn't get there until nearly mid-card, but who cared!

That was some 30 years ago...before drunk driving became the real criminal issue that it is now. We were all three sheets to the wind that night, and I don't know how we got there, and I have no idea how I got home.

All I'm saying is...don't drive drunk. The potential consequences could destroy your life and that of your family as well.

Anyway, I'm surprised actually that I remember that night....going from Hollywood Park to Los Alamitos. I'm not really proud of it.

Well stated. No worries here. My alcohol level will be the exact same as mr. Blutarsky"s grade point average, 0.0

outofthebox 12-11-2014 08:30 AM

Late 70's Del Mar- Hollywood Park Harness. Oak Tree- Hollywood Harness..And a few Santa Anita- Los Al harness early 90's.

Gate Dancer 12-11-2014 08:36 AM

Many years ago did the Hawthorne-Balmoral day night doubleheader.......quite fun! In fact I believe they were both thoroughbred meets? But probably the trotters were at night.................

-BT- 12-11-2014 09:36 AM

as most stated, done Laurel/Rosecroft many times
Pimlico/Rosecroft
Laurel/Charles Town
Pimlico/Charles Town
2012 Belmont/Meadowlands (should have also been Monmouth/Meadowlands that weekend as well, ty for nothing NJ turnpike)
Saratoga/Saratoga Harness

and the infamous TBD/Derby Lane


-bt-

ne to socal 12-11-2014 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Real Quiet (Post 1008592)
Rockingham / Scarborough Downs

Did that when my dad drove some wiggle runners and I was a wee lad tagging along with my uncle. Also did:

Suffolk-Rock when they alternated TB/trotters.

DRC-Hazel Park.


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