Sat Coffee Break 4-21

[Wilderness]

001 horseman?

002 official

003 official?

004 location?

005 horse and horseman?

[AmyHollar]

#4,,,,,,Scioto Downs?

[AmyHollar]

If the last pic is at Delaware....it means the lump in the infield has been there for years.........dare I ask who or what is in it?

[Wilderness]

#4,,,,,,Scioto Downs?

 Spot on Amy.
I thought that would be too easy for the locals.

[Wilderness]

Spot on Amy.
I thought that would be too easy for the locals.

Amy,
       Its likely Delaware, however I've not text for the picture, which was part of an advertisement.
 This horse and other horses by this horseman owner raced all over, however he generally only drove close to home.

[Wilderness]

Amy,
        I'm sure there's somebody who knows what horse is buried there.
 Many horses have been buried in infields.

This site (which I haven't looked at in some years) offers some burial sites GraveMatters Non-TBred

[AmyHollar]

 

[Wilderness]

Amy,
        Some years back I had a website contact from a resident in the subdivision of the former Chase Farm at Palantine, Illinois.

 He reported that there were numerous documentations of ghosts, both horses and people, that people living in the subdivision homes had seen.

 One of the most gorgeous of horse cemeteries was the one at Palo Alto and the former Leland Stanford Farm (present day Stanford University).
 Leland Stanford took great pride in the cemetery, which is today non-existent. John Hervey discredited the folks at Stanford for desecrating the cemetery, however I pondered and assumed that it was likely that the cemetery and many buildings on the Stanford Farm were victims of the Great San Francisco Earthquake.

[Wilderness]

001 horseman?
Jim Hackett
http://www.mi-harness.net/hof/0h0.html#JAHACKETT

002 official
Marty Glickman
http://www.mi-harness.net/SBreds/Memor26.html#Glick

003 official?
Polly Price
Polly Price Took a Two-Week Trial of Job 22 Years Ago (1928)-He's Still on It ONE of harness racing's most familiar figures is George R. (Polly) Price, a 75-year-old retired chauffer who parlayed two weeks of temporary employment into a full-time job with William H. Cane and the harness racing plant which plays host to The Hambletonian.
Price, chauffeur for a Wall Street lawyer through most of his youth, gave up that job in 1928 at the age of 53 and returned to Goshen where he had resided since 1898.
Walter R. Cox, the veteran trainer, was then in charge of Good Time Park and on the lookout for a track superintendent. Through Mrs. Price, the Cox family cook, he learned that George was available. He summoned the former chauffeur for an interview. The man who was to train the first four finishers in the 1929 Hambletonian outlined the job and asked Price if he was interested.
"I'll try it for two weeks," Price said, "if I like the work, I'll stay on."And he must have liked it because he's still there, one of the official Hambletonian family ever since the inception of that stake as an annual Goshen feature.
Price is responsible for a million and one things that 10 to making good racing at Good Time. He keeps the oval in tip-top shape and supervises all actual track activities 365 days out of the year.
He doesn't plan to retire either. I'm only 75," he says, "I'll be around as long as the boss wants me. I like it here."

LIKES HIS JOB-Polly Price told Walter Cox 22 years age that he'd work as track superintendent at Goshen Mile Track for two weeks on trial. If he liked it, he said he would stay. He's still on the job.

004 location?
Scioto Dining Room

005 horse and horseman?
Steamin Demon (George VanCamp)