1976 US Pacing Championship Roosevelt Raceway harness racing

www.RooseveltRaceway.us -TARPORT HAP sets a track record of 1:57, while beating the boys in the biggest FFA race of the era, the U.S. Pacing Championship. RAMBLING WILLIE, ANDY LOBELL, KEYSTONE ACCENT, HANDLE WITH CARE, SHIRLEYS BEAU, FLY FLY SOLLY, MOMENTUM & NICKAWAMPUS LEROY

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[bgardiner2000]

There was another horse in that race that became famous in the southern hemisphere years later. The great Australian Champion Village Kid retired at the age of 13. Before he retired he ran a charity time trial to see if he could better the world mark for a 13 year old on any sized track of 1:56.6 held by rambing Willie. At 13 Village Kid (whose stable name was Willie) ran an improbable 1:55 flat on a half mile track.

[RooseveltRaceway]

Nice note - thanks

[SteveSparx]

@SteveSparx ty lol mb

[SteveSparx]

sick

[BugsWisely]

I loved Jack Lee. His nicknames were kick ass.

[SteveSparx]

@easygoer13 GREAT horse~saw her at Roosevelt kick every horses ass GOING AWAY~SS

[STU676]

@SteveSparx Chapman drove

[kayshkorn]

@easygoer13 She had a ruptured mediastinal artery in her mid to upper abdomen. The aorta is the main artery that leads from the heart and where it splits in the midgut one of the larger arteries dissected. She didn't die instantly. She died in about 45 seconds to a minute.

[BettorOffSingle]

@H3R1Skyline Um Rambling Willie would be Forty-Seven if he were still alive.

[spikeri812]

war admiral 2- wide the whole way.... you do the math how much EXTRA distance will an outside horse have to run !?!?!

[RayGordon888]

Yes, that was one of the more memorable times a horse died in a race.

Tarport Hap was the shit.

[SteveSparx]

I was there!! AWESOME ride Jim Dennis.