Racetracks of the world on Google Maps.

Glimmerglass · August 21, 2020, 10:56am

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And to think the Globe and Herald were spinning yarn for years with saying he was over in the ‘old country’ - Cork or Wicklow. Such b.s. The current leaders at the FBI deserve credit for focusing on the gf and her personal traits and habits as a way of uncovering her and leading to him. 48-hours late they got their man.

As for his old neighborhood I suspect they denied knowing jack but how exactly does this work, for example: Tax bills on Quincy home of Whitey Bulger’s girlfriend sent to South Boston. “The bills, which total about $4,600 a year, are paid on time.”

Anyhow maybe now that he’ll be back in Beantown he will get to watch the Suffolk ponies from his cell.

Glimmerglass · August 21, 2020, 10:56am

This may have been posted before: Atlantic City Race Course (NJ)

Barrington (MA) Fair in the Berkshires - now defunct

A 2010 photo of the saddling stalls left at Barrington as well as this shot where the wager returns have faded

Three County Fair in Northampton, MA - horse racing was discontinued a few years ago. Although this is where Zippy Chipp made his 100th career start in 2004

Barnfairy · August 21, 2020, 10:57am

Well then, let’s just complete the defunct MA fair circuit, shall we?

Berkshire Downs

Where there was once a 1/2 mile dirt oval in Weymouth is now a housing development.

Brockton Fair, the only track with a shot at making a comeback, as far as I know.

The joint busting 1/4 mile track at the Marshfield Fair is no longer visible as an oval, but you can make out the grandstand off to the side. The main attraction on the old track site there now is the demolition derby.

To be fair, initial reports suggest that “Charlie” and his lady friend had only been in residence at the Eugenie apt for a year. Their whereabouts prior to that? Who knows…I guess we’ll find out!

Glimmerglass · August 21, 2020, 10:57am

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Well then, let’s just complete the defunct MA fair circuit, shall we?

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A yes this is the same track that Ol’ Blue Eyes - Frank Sinatra - owned a stake in and was a director not Chairman, however

Raymond Patriarca was the crime boss of Providence, R.I. In the early 1950s he moved in on organized crime in Boston and by 1954 had control of all of New England. There are many rumors about Patriarca’s connection with both Joseph P. Kennedy and Frank Sinatra.

In 1963 Sinatra invested $55,000 in the Berkshire Downs Racetrack in western Massachusetts. He and Dean Martin were named directors of the track. Rumors abounded, and were often repeated in the FBI files, that Sinatra was a front for the real owners of the racetrack: Raymond Patriarca and Gaetano ‘‘Three-finger Brown’’ Lucchese. The track went bankrupt in 1965, but the deal came back to haunt Sinatra years later.

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth dear … and he shows 'em, pearly whites

Glimmerglass · August 21, 2020, 10:57am

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To be fair, initial reports suggest that “Charlie” and his lady friend had only been in residence at the Eugenie apt for a year. Their whereabouts prior to that? Who knows…I guess we’ll find out![/QUOTE]

Looks like Chuck and Carol have been there a while - maybe even went to Santa Anita

According to the property manager, the couple have rented Unit 303 under the names of Charles and Carol Gasko since sometime in the mid-1990s.

“It was a regular apartment,’’ said Joshua Bond, 28. “There was nothing special about it.’’

According to Santa Monica Rent Control Board records, Unit 303 has been continuously occupied by the same tenants since at least Jan. 1, 1999, when new rent control rules took effect in the coastal city.

Drvmb1ggl3 · August 21, 2020, 10:58am

Aerial view of Laytown.
“What?”, I hear you say, “that’s not a racecourse, that’s a mile of straight sandy beach”. Once a year there is a race meeting held there, as you can see in this video. As far as I know the only recognized race meet in the world held on a beach.

Drvmb1ggl3 · August 21, 2020, 10:58am

Ippodromo Cappanelle in Rome.

Drvmb1ggl3 · August 21, 2020, 10:58am

Here is Cartmel, one of the quaintest courses anywhere in the world. Situated right next to the beautiful old village of the same name in the north of England. Course is highly unusual in that the “home stretch” cuts diagonally across the center of the course, and the grandstand is in the infield, as it were.
Here’s a video of a race at Cartmel.