NO LARRY ROLLA.

I must be really old. I knew a few of these guys. Del Insko, Joe Marsh, Eddie Cobb.i saw quite a few of others when they showed up in Chicago, mostly Sportsman Park. Great stuff.

thanks for the nice walk down memory lane...grew up in Levittown and spend many a fun night there...sad to see its gone now... the times they are a changing...

A driver once told me he made more money losing races than he did winning.

TO THINK YOU WILL NEVER SEE CROWDS LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN.YONKERS LUCKY IF THEY GET 25 people during the week.

Don’t forget Larry rolla

Must have been nice to go on a Saturday night in the summer time.

Joes the best friend i all ways knew he all ways said to me johnny boy you leaving i said i dont know

Pat a great.guy

My dad knew.bill.hauting

My dad should have been in there. Sal Traina. 😎

Loooooosh!

very nice

Taking a young horse across the street to the track was sometimes an adventure. I do remember.

The amount of talent and “ fixed” races in that bunch….. We need a computer to add all that up. But talent, tons and tons. Herve would have had 25,000 plus winners if he didn’t stiff so many. Oh well, it is what it is.When you had mob involved, you do what you are told. The sad truth in those days, especially in NY and NJ at that time. Waiting for some donk to comment how wrong i am…. Lol

Carmine from the 8 hole sometimes paid huge.

Such stand-up guys LOL

Sholty let me ride in a sulky when my Dad stopped by to say hi.

Great stuff Freddy

Did Bill Popfinger retire? Ill?

Toothpick in teeth!

In 1978 and Roosevelt Raceway I hit the in the last race with two $6 boxes they would have longest shots on the board with Lucien Fontaine winning the race and the odds with 30 35 and 49 and that driver was Paul Appel the trifecta paid only $3,200 which was the total fucking robbery they ran around the track what the number 4 and the number 6 the two favorites the one and two with nowhere to be found and a Longshot the number five got third at 49 to 1 the trifecta should have paid at least 15 to 20 thousand dollars and it took the control room about 15 minutes to put the price up they knew something was fishy I was totally robbed that Trifecta should have paid between 15 and $20,000 but I found out to connections that I had that that time at Fontaine and his boys had a big time and how did was fontaine's connections will the 6446 combination up and down hundreds of times they took 90% or more of the pool down they all bet in the seventies and eighties when I get information I was loaded with money now in my old age I'm broke got to know what horses in shape in the race and if the driver is going with that horse cut down the odds in the racer what was his going to win and you win a lot of money depending on how much you bet I know because my friends are in the game and in the barns we didn't get information all the time but when we got it most of the time we won the program didn't mean much just the name of the horse and the driver when I was in my twenties in the 70s and 80s one of my friends went to a top harness driver for 12 years from 1968 to 1980 and when we got information that aleph-one all the time now I still play the game the hardest game with no information I'm always broke and if I win I don't win big money at all that's the truth I'm 74 and I've been around all over the place goodnight in the bond you don't know any drivers you don't know what's going on you're going to lose not all the time but most of the time and that's a fact that's what I have to say and it's the truth I have lost thousands and thousands of dollars in the game and I know people that were in the game at the only gambled on that particular sport had tons of money because you can't gamble morning on the Night On Every Damn Sport and go to Atlantic City and Vegas no matter how much money you win Case Closed goodbye!

A few others were Jacques Dupuis. Sandy Levy and Russell Rash.

No pictures of my father Sam Smith he raced there for many years

Anyone else think that most of these guys are Fugly?

Didn’t see Jimmy Marohn.

I started in Freehold whit Herve

wow the good old days....

Loooooo guys making a living on fixing races loooooooooo you remember the garbage cans on fire 🔥 do

That was very nice!!

Your daughter says happy birthday... not chrissy....

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happy bday amazing how u skated away from that race fixing charge

Boy did that bring back memories . I worked with the horses for 17 years . Many of those drove the horses I took care of

Never knew much about harness racing until they knocked down the batting cages and pitch & putt on route 3 and built the Meadowlands, from that point forward I fell in love with it ! Remember seeing Rambling Willie and Sonsam and so many great horses but was sad I never got to go to Roosevelt Raceway but many other tracks of the northeast from Yonkers to Bass Park and so many more !!

I can remember Del being introduced on the Ed Sullivan show, many decades ago.

Not one pic of Jim Marhon.

Happy birthday ! Snowstorm!

Awesome demonstration

Good to hear Bob Bencal. Worked for him in 1979-80, mostly with his brother Kenny

HBD Del!!

Memories, beautifully done…..

I'd like to see this done for Lebanon raceway

I might have to get into this sport to back this horse. Great name!

Always classy

Fantastic project and Robbie Siegelman a class individual!

Like seeing old friends again. Thank you for preserving a lifetime of memories.