Race Track Ownership
Already an owner of the Palmetto Club in New Orleans, Louisiana that serviced a betting clientele for local horse races, in 1926 Edward Bradley purchased the Fair Grounds Race Course. He spent a great deal of money to improve the facility but in 1932, after making a substantial investment in Joseph E. Widener's new Hialeah Park Race Track near Miami, Florida, Bradley leased the Fair Grounds Race Course to a group of Chicago businessmen and in 1934 sold it outright to Robert S. Eddy, Jr., Joseph Cattarinich and associates, owners of rival Jefferson Park Racetrack in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
The "Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap" is named in his memory and is raced annually in January at the Fair Grounds Race Course. In 1971, he was part of the inaugural class of inductees into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame.
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