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		<title>New York Racing, 1905</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst all of the Derby hoopla, Belmont Park will open for its spring meet on Friday.  As I have said in this space before, Belmont is one of my favorite tracks.  Like all racing fans, annual markers on my calendar are linked to big races and opening days.  This year, Belmont opens on Friday and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn to Handicap the Races, 1895</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago, the Hello Race Fans site was launched. I have mentioned HRF here before and it has come together beautifully under the steady hand of the site&#8217;s captain Dana Byerly.  The philosophy behind the site is to provide a non-intimidating and, hopefully, entertaining space to learn about thoroughbred racing. Dana has put together a talented group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parimutuel Wagering Grows Up, 1932</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to do a follow up this week on the post about parimutuel wagering from a few weeks ago. In that post, I quoted from a 1908 article published in the Daily Racing Form about parimutuels in Kentucky.  As commenter Cangamble mentioned, it wasn&#8217;t until the 1930s that parimutuel betting became the dominant form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racetrack plunger Riley Grannan, 1869-1908</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s all a joke; it doesn&#8217;t amount to anything.&#8221; These were the last words of Riley Grannan as he lay dying of pneumonia in Rawhide, Nevada. Grannan was a gambler and bookmaker, who won and lost his fortune multiple times playing the races. Image: Sketch of Riley Grannan from an 1895 newspaper article The name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belmont Park Opens After 3 Dark Years, 1913</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this blog know that I have a thing for opening days. All those cliches about &#8220;new beginnings&#8221; and &#8220;fresh starts&#8221; ring true for me. Last March, I did a post about the first opening day at Belmont Park, 1905. Obviously, that was an important day in the history of the grand track in [...]]]></description>
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