Just a stroll down memory lane here in Maryland

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Found this stuff on Wikipedia and the MEC site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C._International

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Futurity

http://www.laurelpark.com/About+Us/History/HistoryLaurelPark.htm

The last link has an article on the history of the track but it wasn't edited very well and skips about quite a bit.

I do like the pic that comes with the article of what appears to be the original area by the grandstand. I can't believe there were trees in the infield....and that a few match races were run there too. I know Laurel tried to get Man O' War and Sir Barton go hoof to hoof there back in the day....