News Events
Following America's involvement in World War II, the racetrack was closed from 1943 into 1945.
On March 9, 1955, officials discovered a cabin cruiser floating on the track's infield lake . No one knew how it got there.
During the night of January 31, 1966 a fire burned down five barns at the track that took the lives of at least 43 horses.
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