So glad I found this video and Thank You. During the middle sixtys when I was a kid I loved Horses and was only about a hundred pounds (that didn't last long) but I was light enough to be an exersise boy and hot walker. The trainer would pick me up at 0:Dark:30 and we did the whole circut Lincoln, Suffolk, Rockinham, and (Narra)Gansett. Great Vid Thanx again (I think the Building 19 1/2 is gone do you remember the flea market?)
Thanks for these videos. My dad was a jockey and he rode at 'Gansett for years. We actually lived in a house on Beverage Hill Avenue across from the old race track parking lot.
The "trailer park' was there because of the race track. Many of the track people lived there. As for the racing - it went downhill after 1950 as the top outfits wouldn't ship in anymore as the "mob" gained a hold on the place.
In the end there was a concerted effort to shut the place down as they owed over .6 million $ in back taxes and the horses were the worst in the country. At the end 'Gansett made Sports Illustrated when a 20 and 22 yr old won the halves of a daily double. Oldest pair ever.
Chilling. Thanks for sharing this video. Too bad tracks like Narragansett and Hialeah decided to throw in the towel. If either could have found a way to survive, I believe we will soon see the re-emergence of horse racing as a profitable business.
So glad I found this video and Thank You. During the middle sixtys when I was a kid I loved Horses and was only about a hundred pounds (that didn't last long) but I was light enough to be an exersise boy and hot walker. The trainer would pick me up at 0:Dark:30 and we did the whole circut Lincoln, Suffolk, Rockinham, and (Narra)Gansett. Great Vid Thanx again (I think the Building 19 1/2 is gone do you remember the flea market?)
LumpyRhodes 2 years ago
Thanks for these videos. My dad was a jockey and he rode at 'Gansett for years. We actually lived in a house on Beverage Hill Avenue across from the old race track parking lot.
smd1217 3 years ago
The "trailer park' was there because of the race track. Many of the track people lived there. As for the racing - it went downhill after 1950 as the top outfits wouldn't ship in anymore as the "mob" gained a hold on the place.
In the end there was a concerted effort to shut the place down as they owed over .6 million $ in back taxes and the horses were the worst in the country. At the end 'Gansett made Sports Illustrated when a 20 and 22 yr old won the halves of a daily double. Oldest pair ever.
npspec34 3 years ago
like everything else good in rhode island it gets taken away from the people now we have a trailer park and a industrial park
braposo23 3 years ago
sounds like Cayce to me ( town south of my town)
odog65 2 years ago
And now it's a Building 19 discount store, Sad.
rhodeisland95 3 years ago
Chilling. Thanks for sharing this video. Too bad tracks like Narragansett and Hialeah decided to throw in the towel. If either could have found a way to survive, I believe we will soon see the re-emergence of horse racing as a profitable business.
jerryhal1 4 years ago