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| | Northern Ohio Live : May 2005 : Thistledown at 80 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | He calls Thistledown’s track surface “one of the best in the country, very kind to the horses.” The meticulously groomed track has a three-inch cushion of sand, silt and clay that’s so soft, you want to drag your fingers through it. |
 | | For example, in 2000, Thistledown built a new paddock and opened up a large window on the east side of the ground-floor grandstand, so that patrons could see the horses saddled and the jockeys emerge from the locker room. |
 | | Jack Clare, known as the Mayor of Thistledown, is such a presence that Murphy had a seat painted with his name on the back in the outdoor grandstands. |
| www.northernohiolive.com /archives/05-05may/story2.htm (1315 words) |
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