This weekend was a good of family time for Thanksgiving and Geocaching! We
cached on both Saturday and Sunday and it was, again, lots of fun. We
placed three new caches in our "Seinfeld" cache series...."Take
the Pen", "Adjacent
to Refuse", and "Low
Flow?". We even found another neat piece of history that we would've
missed if it wasn't for Geocaching and I loved it!
There is a multi-cache called "Arlington
Downs" that takes you to what was once the location Texas' first parimutual
racetrack. It was 1.0625 horse track from 1929-1937 that had a grandstand
that seated 6,000 (a portion of it is now at the G. Rollie White Downs track in
Brady, TX). The most famous race run at Arlington was the Texas Derby,
described as a tryout for the Kentucky Derby. It closed in 1937 when
parimutual betting was outlawed in Texas and after that the track was used
for a lot of different things such as auto racing and was used during the
filming of the movie "To Please a
Lady". The track was finally sold in 1956 and has since been
demolished long ago. The area is now a business park not too far from The
Ballpark in Arlington and all that is left is an old watering trough and
with its little horses and riders along the outside are the only clue that it
was part of the track. The trough is about 0.2 miles away from the
Historical marker describing the track.