Did you write ... YONKERS??
Did you write ... YONKERS??
I cannot believe somebody is actually posting a play for YONKERS Raceway :0
Absolutely GREAT to see this.
Harness racing is a dying sport and many years ago most of us who liked the standardbreds saw tracks like Yonkers dying a slow death. When I left N.J., the concensus was that Yonkers would close and Roosevelt would be the harness track for the NY area. Just the opposite happened. ??
I LUVED that place back then and, after driving about 30 miles to get to the Meadowlands, I'd PASS RIGHT BY THAT PLACE, over the G.W. briidge straight to Yonkers to join the degenerates there and watch the kinda racing that REALLY could become addictive. I started playing Yonkers WAY before the Meadowlands was built too. I'm talikin bout the days of a guy named Carmine Abatiello, Loosh (Fontaine), Del Insko. I know . .. yous never heard of the bastages. The sharpies who made money would either be "in-the-know" OR be excellent cappers who found a speedster, close to the rail, with Carmine doing the steering... they'd lay down the BIG bucks and watch the "Redman" lead em all the way around that bull ring twice and pay something like $4-$6 and then go home with a bundle. The mutual pools at Yonkers were like the current pools at the major thoroughbred tracks today. The NY Post used to devote a FULL page to Yonkers in those days, think the collumnist name was Heicht or sumphin like that. A newstand paper, Sports Eye, was all devoted to Yonkers AND you could get the Doc Robbins program for Yonkers at most newstands.
When I first went to Yonkers - you couldn't find an empty seat (upstairs) on a Friday or Sat. night. No OTBs, casinos, internets. These days - you need a pair of binoculars to find somebody else there playing the horses. Kinda sad.
Good luck with the play and thanks for the memories. Think I'll watch Monday's night's race and see how ya do, deliman.
Seeyas at Philly soon.
