Thread: Riding immortal Bill Hartack dies at 74
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Old 11-27-2007, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Kasept
Hartack winning 1956 Preakness on Fabius, over Needles (Newsreel footage.. Starts at 4:01 and continues to Nashua winning Camden H. breaking Citation's earning mark):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaJ1uEkxo
Can you imagine that kind of coverage in the general media today? Fun to look back on where racing was in a different era.

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