Bruce had the PP at Wolverine raceway in 1976 at the Grand circuit stop there...Joe O"Brien time trialled a trotting filly during the week and she went in a blazing 2:06....they muted the muffler noise pretty good, and they had a speaker playing pre-recorded hoofbeats, voices and whips to make it realistic, but i guess there was no substitute for Fred Bach and Dennis Lacey...
Great bunch who would be - and mostly were - free-for-allers at the Meadowlands, too ... I remember the Bruce Nickells Power Prompter. It had a speaker mounted on one fender, or maybe both, and one of the recorded sounds played through it/them was, or sounded like, pots and pans banging together ... 😅
what a great race would if liked to see the official photo. the paddock was in the back side then but people were scattered ask over the track watching
When you watch the videos of these races, pay attenetion to how many HORSEMEN would stop what they were doing to see the race...Whether it was the FFA at Scioto, the Provincial Cup at Windsor Raceway, or the International at Roosevelt, horsemen have a great deal of respect for their peers, both human and equine....
Willie and Young Quinn virtually co-favorites at 8/5 &2/1, with Adios Skipper and Pickwick Baron off at 5/1 & 13/1 respectively..The fans got their money's worth...
Sadly,due to failing materials and old age,the distinctive grandstand at Scioto Downs has been slated for demolition..another historic location not to be saved...
Before he broke the WR...Pickwick Baron won the Imperial Series Final at Windsor raceway in late 1975 in rein to Greg Wright..Oh yes...he also had a stablemate you might have also heard of .....DREAM OF GLORY...Thus endeth the lesson...
These two horses pickwickbarron and dream of glory were my great grandpa’s horses never got to see them run in person but this video is amazing to watch!!!!
@@Messinumber1undisputedforever AJ...If you do q search of the CHALLENGE CUP at Roosevelr Raceway in1976, you will see Dream of Glory winning the race with Joe O'Brien in the bike...
Even though he raced into 1977, Momentum (and his stablemate Kaboom Minbar) could not replicate their earlier successes, and Mo was retired after a brief campaign to stand in Ohio...
Thanks, Dom
Dom.. thanks for giving us the entire video of this race...some who witnessed it in person appreciate it....
hey Mark. You must have seen that power prompter up close. Bob Marks told me it scared the horses and thats why it failed.
Bruce had the PP at Wolverine raceway in 1976 at the Grand circuit stop there...Joe O"Brien time trialled a trotting filly during the week and she went in a blazing 2:06....they muted the muffler noise pretty good, and they had a speaker playing pre-recorded hoofbeats, voices and whips to make it realistic, but i guess there was no substitute for Fred Bach and Dennis Lacey...
Great bunch who would be - and mostly were - free-for-allers at the Meadowlands, too ...
I remember the Bruce Nickells Power Prompter. It had a speaker mounted on one fender, or maybe both, and one of the recorded sounds played through it/them was, or sounded like, pots and pans banging together ... 😅
what a great race would if liked to see the official photo. the paddock was in the back side then but people were scattered ask over the track watching
When you watch the videos of these races, pay attenetion to how many HORSEMEN would stop what they were doing to see the race...Whether it was the FFA at Scioto, the Provincial Cup at Windsor Raceway, or the International at Roosevelt, horsemen have a great deal of respect for their peers, both human and equine....
Dont see much of that these days
Willie and Young Quinn virtually co-favorites at 8/5 &2/1, with Adios Skipper and Pickwick Baron off at 5/1 & 13/1 respectively..The fans got their money's worth...
Pickwick Baron paid $37.20 to win. Therefore he went off at 17/1
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Sadly,due to failing materials and old age,the distinctive grandstand at Scioto Downs has been slated for demolition..another historic location not to be saved...
Before he broke the WR...Pickwick Baron won the Imperial Series Final at Windsor raceway in late 1975 in rein to Greg Wright..Oh yes...he also had a stablemate you might have also heard of .....DREAM OF GLORY...Thus endeth the lesson...
These two horses pickwickbarron and dream of glory were my great grandpa’s horses never got to see them run in person but this video is amazing to watch!!!!
@@Messinumber1undisputedforever AJ...If you do q search of the CHALLENGE CUP at Roosevelr Raceway in1976, you will see Dream of Glory winning the race with Joe O'Brien in the bike...
Even though he raced into 1977, Momentum (and his stablemate Kaboom Minbar) could not replicate their earlier successes, and Mo was retired after a brief campaign to stand in Ohio...