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To: FlJoePa

Greyhounds????Are there still greyhound tracks? In Phoenix 33 years ago I used to go to Greyhound Park for the first year we lived there. Made a little money just by betting on the rail dog. It was a very funny sight: before every race, the dog handlers, looking very serious and dressed in blue jumpsuits, would come out with each of their dogs on leashes, and stand up on a little hill by the rail fence, separated from the spectators, under harsh spotlights,and all this while a loud sprightly instrumental version of the theme from “Bridge on the River Kwai” played on the P.A. system. You had to be there I guess but it was weird.


68 posted on 05/03/2015 11:33:13 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: supremedoctrine
Still have dogs in Palm Beach. Jai Alai left years ago though.


69 posted on 05/03/2015 11:38:19 AM PDT by FlJoePa
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