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Originally Posted by JJP
There is no more Sportsman's. The Ill Derby is run at Hawthorne.
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Sportsman's was a great track when it was 5/8ths. An apprentice rider got killed there in the early 90s and Lukas said "I'll never run a horse there again", The comment was stupid because: 1) Lukas never ran horses at Spt anyways, and 2) the sharp turns had nothing to do with the rider getting killed.
So what did they do? The elongated the stretches and still kept the hairpin turns, so it was like a paperclip, or maybe a stretched out rubber band. The fans loved the old 5/8th track and hated the conversion. Then came the strange twist with building an auto track outside the dirt surface. That helped speed things up to where things are now: no more Sportsman's....R.I.P.