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Harness Racing at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1953
Description: Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand.
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Harness Racers Neck and Neck

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Description: Five harness racing horses, sulkies, and drivers race around the Wisconsin State Fair track as an audience watches from the grandstand.
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Grandstand and Racetrack

Date: 1910
Description: Harness race at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. Caption at top left reads: "Partial view, Grand Stand and Race Track, Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee."
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Fairgrounds Harness Race

Date: 07 14 1944
Description: One horse and racer on the track in front of the judges stand during a harness race at a fairgrounds. Signs visible promote county fairs in Darlington and ...
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People at Racetrack

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Description: Racetrack crowded with people.
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Men with Racehorses

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Description: Sulky drivers and horses racing toward the finish line at the racetrack. The judges booth is in the center in front of a tall tree. A large crowd surrounds...
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Men Racing Horses on Racetrack

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Description: Racehorses and jockeys rounding the bend in the racetrack. In the background is the grandstand on the left, and the judges booth in the center near a tall ...
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Two Men with Racehorse

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Description: Elevated view from grandsstand towards men adjusting a jockey's stirrup and the gear of a horse on racetrack. On the other side of the track is the judges ...
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Men Riding Racehorses

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Description: Two men riding horses in front of the stands at the racetrack. A few people are in the grandstand.
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Harness Racing at Washington Park

Date: 07 12 1914
Description: Crowds at the race course watching harness racing in Washington Park. There are three racers, and a crowd of spectators is sitting in the grandstands, on t...
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Horse Track at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A KRNT radio broadcaster sitting on a platform above a horse track at the Iowa State Fair as another man on the right is filming the race for television. A...
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Racetrack Audience at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A large crowd sits in stadium-style bleachers to watch a horse race at the Iowa State Fair.
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Buggy Race with Fred Pabst

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Description: Two men are racing small horse-drawn buggies on a dirt track at an exhibition at the Pabst Farms. The man on the left is identified as Fred Pabst, Milwauke...
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Sulky Race Track

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of a horse racing track and spectators. Sulkies, which are two-wheeled, one-person carriages drawn by a single horse, are racing. The race ...
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Saratoga Racetrack

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Description: Elevated view of spectators viewing horses as they parade before a race at Saratoga Racetrack. The racetrack opened in 1864.
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Horse Racing at Arlington Park

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Description: Jockeys on horseback pass a striped marker on the dirt race track at Arlington Park. In the background the grandstand holds numerous spectators. Arlington ...
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Horse Racing

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Description: View of a horse race at the Lower California Jockey Club in Tijuana, Mexico. Two men stand in a shelter, keeping time, while others watch the horses race p...
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Horse Racing at Agua Caliente Jockey Club

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Description: Horses race past on the track at Aqua Caliente Jockey Club while spectators look on from the grandstand. The club opened in 1929 and was located in Tijuana...
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Judges Stand at Oriental Park Racetrack

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Description: Horses stand near a judge's booth at Oriental Park Racetrack while spectators watch from a grandstand in the background. The racetrack was founded in 1915 ...
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Sulky Racing

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Description: Horses harnessed to sulkies pass the judge's stand at Goshen Historic Track as spectators look on from the grandstand and sidelines. Goshen Historic Track ...

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