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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  05.01.2018 - 7:59 pm
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This Brooklyn race track was built as a horse racing track in 1880. The
Coney Island Jockey Club ran the track and in 1886 it became home to the
first turf horse racing track in the United States, a one-mile turf
course was built inside the large dirt oval replacing the track's
steeplechase course. The horse track flopped out after the State of New
York passed laws that virtually ban betting on horse races, while that
ban was lifted by 1913 horses gave way to horsepower as this track was
sold and the dirt track converted into a wooden board auto racing track.
It's motorsport days would not last as the death of the track's majority
shareholder in 1919 later led its closure and demise, the property was
sold for residential real estate development and the complex plowed
under so the land could be reused.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  05.04.2018 - 10:33 am
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Website oddity note:
The "Tracks" page is acting weird for all the new ones added for the
early AAA Champ Races added this week, like this one, listing all of the
"First Race" and "Last Race" stats as being 100 years later than they
were run.


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