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Originally Posted by Real Quiet
Well you made the cut NJS. Race 3 is not off yet. Good luck. BTW, have you ever been to Freehold? Yet another NJ track closing. I used to watch afternoon racing in the 70's, long before simulcasting and vividly remember driving on Route 9 under the Freehold bridge with the sign that said something like "over this bridge go the worlds best trotters and pacers". Freehold used to be big time back in the day.
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I recall going to watch the trotters at Freehold only once in 1964 or thereabouts. I'd been to Monmouth Park a number of times prior to that, and in comparison Freehold seemed to be very compact. I think that when each race started there were only 6 runners in the first row, and numbers 7 and 8 had to start in a second row, an impossible disadvantage on a very tight circuit. Prior to the start of each race, the entrants would enter the track by crossing the bridge you referred to. It's probably long gone by now, but there used to be a very congested traffic circle very close to the track where US 9 and NJ Route 33 met. A place called the Jersey Freeze was located next to that traffic circle and it made some of the very best milk shakes I ever had.
09-21-2024, 01:06 PM
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