1976 Challenge Cup Trot Roosevelt Raceway
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- www.RooseveltRaceway.us DREAM OF GLORY, SNEGUM FLIGHT, KASH MINBAR, SAVOIR, JOHNNY JUMPUP, EQUILEO, BELLINO II & MEADOW BRIGHT. Drivers Bill Megens, Bill Haughton, Bernard Froger, Joe O'Brien, Dick Hogan, Jean-Rene Gougeon & Del Miller. July 17, 1976
Heck of a kick by Dream of Glory and Joey O to pick up all the pieces!
My birthday...July 17, 1976
Dream Of Glory was a beast on the racetrack and was also a super sire. I remember back in the 1980's, you'd see 2 and 3 yr old OSS races where 6 or 7 horses in a 9 horse field were Dream Of Glory's offspring.
mark Before the brothers Armstrong stood him in Ontario, Pius Soehnlen test bred him to 8 of the familys broodmares after registering him in Ohio...6 were winners of stakes, 3 were Ohio SS winners...Ohio let 2 great stallions slip away(DOG...Striking Sahbra)...
mark My bad, i miscounted..there were 10..they made a combined 206k at 2&3, and there were 4 SS winners...
@raygordon: The pace after the first quarter slowed down a lot, the second quarter, where Johnny Jump Up made the big move he did was in :33 2/5. The next three-quarters was in 1:31 4/5 (1 1/4 Miles in 2:35), and the overall pace was quite slow, especially given Kash Minbar had broken 2:00 for the mile (at one point the only trotter to do so in Roosevelt's history).
Bill Megens is my grandpa :) I was surprised to find a video of my family's horse races...of course Snegem Flight was an amazing horse
Justin..I was at Windsor Raceway on a Sunday afternoon when your Grandpa and Snegem Flight broke the Track Record for 3-yo trotting colts...He was a very talented horseman...
Same here my great grandpas horse was dream of glory great to see these two greats face off
BILL MEGENS IS STILL DRIVING AND TRAINING A STABLE OF TEN AT 78 YEARS OLD IN CAMBRIDGE ONTARIO
I think I remember hearing this race on WCBS radio! I was able to pick it up in Columbus, OH one night and was thrilled to hear that Dream of Glory was in the race, as he'd been a regular at Scioto Downs.
Me too. I swear to God. I lived on LI but I wasn't at the track that night. The WHOLE CALL was on WCBS radio---the whole mile and a half. I bet Kash Minbar at OTB and Jack made me think I had a winner on the far turn. The race call was indelible in my memory. I didn't remember all the words all the way through, of course, but I did remember the "Dream of Glory is the strong horse!" line at the very end. Indelible. It killed me, because the call came out of nowwhere, and I thought I had the winner. Then 30 years later I finally get to see the race-----and DOG did come out of nowhere!
Funny thing though. As much as I Iiked and appreciated finally seeing the race, it kind of tainted the radio experience a little bit. It wasn't quite the same memory anymore...
WCBS had a clear channel signal that reached almost to Indiana..I listened to many RR and YR race calls in Detroit and beyond in the mid-1970s..
Joe Obrien never used the whip he seldom did just his hands
The mistake was done by George Morton Levy and company a decade before this race was run: Not expanding Roosevelt Raceway to a seven-eighths of a mile oval. While being able to see everything all the way was nice, what Mr. Levy and others failed to realize was that patrons wanted a bigger oval and larger fields. Going to seven-eighths (long straight to the first turn and long stretch) would have done that and possibly kept Roosevelt going long past 1988.
THIS WAS A VERY SPECIAL RACE FOR ME SNEGEM FLIGHT WAS OWNED BY OUR FAMILY GOOD FRIEND BILL MEGENS BILL IS NOW STILL DRIVING AT THE AGE OF 79 AND DREAM OF GLORY WAS TRAINED AND DRIVEN BY JOE OBRIEN JOHNY JUMPUP WAS BROKE BY ROY LAWSON THESE PEOPLE WERE ALL CLOSED TO ME IT WAS HARD TO CHEER FOR 3 HORSES I THINK I WAS MORE EXCITED THAN THE DRIVERS
I was wondering what happened to Peter Haughto after winning with Cold comfort. he seem to let go of the reins and thrust both arms straight in the air and collapse out of the sulky. the other drivers were hovering around him and there the film
ends.
Real problem was in 1988, Roosevelt Raceway's land was far more valuable to Japanese interests, and would have been developed long before it was were it not for the massive recession that hit Japan (and later the US) in 1990 where the Nikkei had the first of TWO crashes it would have in a 30-month period, falling from 39,000 to just over 13,000, or almost 67%. No one was expecting that when Roosevelt closed in '88.
Walt Gekko
Walt..very true, but I also lived on Long Island at that time and we had a few mid level pacers doing the Freehold/Roosevelt /Yonkers circuit. Newsday (long Islands newspaper) was posting once a week how this was a land- grab situation and could have easily been saved, but politicos such as Al D'amato, local judges, Mafioso, bribes, etc being part of the development to a Japanese developer..that was going to happen no matter what.. some small investigating did happen, it slowed down the demolition a bit as well as the Japanese "Yen" crash, but in the end, they finally developed the land.. you and I know Roosevelt could have been a profitable concern, especially now with gambling (Racinos)..& to be honest Yonkers (a dump in a bad area at the time)should have been the one that fell -not Roosevelt
RIP Dad….. we miss you but know your home free.