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Originally Posted by oracle80
I rememeber when Gulf was THE PLACE in the winter and when the cards were great.
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Boy, I'm getting old. I remember when HIALEAH was THE PLACE in the winter, and Gulfstream was the afterthought of the winter season. No Calder, no year-round racing; all the Northern horses came South for the winter, the late, lamented Tropical Park in Nov/Dec, Hialeah in Jan/Feb, Gulfstream in March/Apr. Then all the horses would ship up to fill races at northern tracks. Midwest still works that way, to some degree - Fair Grounds in winter, Oaklawn shading over into spring; FG and OP horses ship north to Kee/CD and AP/Haw, reversing the direction in November.