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Cahokia Downs and the day a jockey won eight races
1954
Alorton, Illinois
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The East St. Louis Jockey Club opened this track on Highway 15 in 1954 and ran both harness and thoroughbred meets. On 18 October 1978 David Gall won eight races on a single card here, the first American thoroughbred jockey to manage it. The Illinois Racing Commission refused Cahokia Downs any dates for 1980, the business filed for bankruptcy that April, and the track never reopened.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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