Tote tickets from years ago
Feb 11, 2014 19:19:21 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 19:19:21 GMT -5
Many of you may be too young to remember tote tickets like these.
Years ago I saved some losing tickets from various tracks that I visited on business trips or vacations. It's amazing how many colors and eventually configurations they used over the years.
Click on each to get the full sized picture. To explain a few (some are obvious)
- Hamilton was from Scioto Downs outside of Columbus Ohio. There were two racing associations that operated harness meets there at the time.
- Fox Valley was from Sportsman's Park, as was Chicago Downs - two racing associations at that track.
- Historic is the name of the harness track in Goshen, NY (sometimes called "Good Time Park", but that was actually another track nearby in Goshen. There used to be wagering on five days a year in the beginning of July, their Grand Circuit week. The owner of the track, E. Rowland Harriman, had a provision in his will that when he died all wagering at the track would cease. It's the world's oldest harness track and the track where the Hambletonian was originally run. It's right across the street from the Hall of Fame of the Trotter.
- Tioga Park was a quarterhorse track in Elmira, NY. It lasted about two or three years, then was resurrected as a harness track, the current Tioga Downs.
- Red Mile is the harness track in Lexington, Kentucky, known for the red clay racing surface. The Trifecta tickets back then were huge, twice the size of other tickets.
- Narragansett Park is the now defunct thoroughbred track outside of Providence, Rhode Island. That ticket was from the same day that Affirmed completed his Triple Crown. I was living in Manhattan at the time but was up in New England that weekend - snuck off to see the races and Affirmed win.
- Belmont Park - the $5 (losing) ticket was on the Suburban Handicap that year, won by Upper Nile.
- Back when they started the all betting/cashing windows (not self-service windows), there were a bunch of different configurations and types of tickets. There are two tickets from The Meadows harness track. It had punched holes that were fed back into the machine when cashing it. Those two tickets are odd, there's no date or race number, just the bet type (just over the trotter logo) I have no idea when I bought them.
There's also a Historic Track reserved seat ticket from back in 1978. Back then, only five years out of college, buying a reserved seat was an unusual luxury for me.
Finally, somewhere in my archives I have an exacta ticket from June 9, 1973 - Secretariat's Belmont Stakes. For some idiotic reason my friend and I thought that Sham might win the Belmont, so we boxed Secretariat and Sham in the exacta. We all know what happened that day!
I hope everyone enjoys these and for some of you old timers hope it's a "pleasant trip down memory lane".
Years ago I saved some losing tickets from various tracks that I visited on business trips or vacations. It's amazing how many colors and eventually configurations they used over the years.
Click on each to get the full sized picture. To explain a few (some are obvious)
- Hamilton was from Scioto Downs outside of Columbus Ohio. There were two racing associations that operated harness meets there at the time.
- Fox Valley was from Sportsman's Park, as was Chicago Downs - two racing associations at that track.
- Historic is the name of the harness track in Goshen, NY (sometimes called "Good Time Park", but that was actually another track nearby in Goshen. There used to be wagering on five days a year in the beginning of July, their Grand Circuit week. The owner of the track, E. Rowland Harriman, had a provision in his will that when he died all wagering at the track would cease. It's the world's oldest harness track and the track where the Hambletonian was originally run. It's right across the street from the Hall of Fame of the Trotter.
- Tioga Park was a quarterhorse track in Elmira, NY. It lasted about two or three years, then was resurrected as a harness track, the current Tioga Downs.
- Red Mile is the harness track in Lexington, Kentucky, known for the red clay racing surface. The Trifecta tickets back then were huge, twice the size of other tickets.
- Narragansett Park is the now defunct thoroughbred track outside of Providence, Rhode Island. That ticket was from the same day that Affirmed completed his Triple Crown. I was living in Manhattan at the time but was up in New England that weekend - snuck off to see the races and Affirmed win.
- Belmont Park - the $5 (losing) ticket was on the Suburban Handicap that year, won by Upper Nile.
- Back when they started the all betting/cashing windows (not self-service windows), there were a bunch of different configurations and types of tickets. There are two tickets from The Meadows harness track. It had punched holes that were fed back into the machine when cashing it. Those two tickets are odd, there's no date or race number, just the bet type (just over the trotter logo) I have no idea when I bought them.
There's also a Historic Track reserved seat ticket from back in 1978. Back then, only five years out of college, buying a reserved seat was an unusual luxury for me.
Finally, somewhere in my archives I have an exacta ticket from June 9, 1973 - Secretariat's Belmont Stakes. For some idiotic reason my friend and I thought that Sham might win the Belmont, so we boxed Secretariat and Sham in the exacta. We all know what happened that day!
I hope everyone enjoys these and for some of you old timers hope it's a "pleasant trip down memory lane".
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