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Scarborough Downs Race Track was a horse-racing track located in Scarborough, Maine, United States. It was Maine's largest race track. It was home to The Downs Club restaurant as well as a grandstand for race viewing, and includes 2 track-side lounges as well as a VIP Room. [1] It held its final races on November 30, 2020. [2]
Scarborough is a town in Cumberland County on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Maine. Located about 7 miles (11 km) south of Portland, Scarborough is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The population was 22,135 at the 2020 census, [2] making it the most populous town in Maine. [3]
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway is a defunct 1/3 mile NASCAR-sanctioned asphalt oval auto racing track in Scarborough, Maine. The track is located near the Scarborough Downs horse racing track. Beech Ridge Motor Speedway hosted races on Saturday nights, as well as Thursdays.
SR 114 begins at an intersection with US 1/SR 9 and SR 207 in Scarborough. There, it heads northwest into Gorham. It has a short concurrency with SR 22. It goes through the city's center and junctions US 202 and SR 4 and SR 25. It heads into Standish and junctions SR 35. Then it follows the Sebago Lake coast into Sebago.
Over the weekend, Churchill Downs -- owner of the famous Churchill Downs Racetrack in Kentucky, as well as racetrack and casino operations in Florida, Louisiana, Illinois, and Mississippi ...
1848 chart showing the position of the Downs off the coast of Kent. NB: depths are in fathoms. The Downs is a roadstead (an area of sheltered, favourable sea) in the southern North Sea near the English Channel, off the east Kent coast in southern England, between the North and the South Foreland, near the town of Deal.
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In 1935, Maine legalized parimutuel betting. The following summer, racing returned to the Kite Track when the Grand Circuit chose Old Orchard Beach to host its pre-Hambletonian races. [10] The track closed with the opening of nearby Scarborough Downs in 1950. [4] The grandstand was eventually torn down and the lights relocated to Scarborough ...