Gone, Baby, Gone
Items lost at Roosevelt Raceway, 1977-1981:
On March 20, 1978, someone reported a lost box of Girl Scout cookies and a book entitled Physics for Career Education. Several weeks later, a Mineola man claimed to have lost $2,350 sometime between buying a pretzel and the top of the 10th race. (The plot thickens!) Elsewhere, there are missing baby clothes (who takes a baby to the track?) and wedding rings, a birth certificate, a blue and orange flowered plastic bag, mimeographed copies of important files, and a woman’s imitation fur coat: “Right pocket contains a lot of keys and left has lipstick.”
Roosevelt Raceway was once the site of the Messenger Stakes, one of the races that make up the Triple Crown of harness racing for pacers. The track was closed in 1988 and torn down in 2000, to the grief of many fans.
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