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Hazel Park Raceway, located in Hazel Park, Michigan, in the metropolitan Detroit area, was a horse race track. From 1949 it offered live thoroughbred racing every Friday and Saturday night May through mid-September, and also offered harness racing. Beginning in 1996, it offered simulcast wagering seven days a week all year long on thoroughbred ...
Anthony 'Tony' Joseph Zerilli (October 24, 1927 - March 31, 2015) was an Italian-American mobster from Sterling Heights, Michigan.From 1949 he was one of the majority owners of the highly profitable Hazel Park Raceway.
Hazel Park is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Hazel Park borders Detroit to the north, roughly 10 miles (16.1 km) north of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 14,983. [4] Hazel Park was incorporated as a city in 1941 and bills itself as The Friendly City.
In 1950 the younger Zerilli, then in his early 20s, had become a majority owner of the Hazel Park Raceway (with family help); it was located in suburban Detroit. With gambling in Michigan limited to betting at racetracks, Hazel Park generated millions of dollars in revenue for the Detroit Partnership.
Between 1993 and 2001, economic activity from horse racing throughout the state fell nearly 19 percent.Year-round racing and the introduction to simulcasting in 1996 helped to keep the racetracks ...
Hazel Park. Hazel Park completely reimagined its business district over the last six years, from a city surviving on revenue from the Hazel Park Raceway, which closed in 2018, to an area known for ...
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Thoroughbred racing was reintroduced at Hazel Park Raceway in 2014 after 30 years. Harness racing continued at other sites in the state, and now, one last harness racing facility operates, Northville Downs at Northville, Michigan. Sports Creek Raceway, a harness racing track near Swartz Creek, Michigan, operated from 1986 to 2015.