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Track rebounding with New Orleans

By Marcus Hersh
Daily Racing Form

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

NEW ORLEANS -- At places like 150-year-old City Park, post-Katrina New Orleans still feels a little like the end of the world. Most of the 1,300-acre park, which basically was underwater following the epic hurricane, remains deserted. Thick, twining vegetation chokes its three 18-hole golf courses. Wild boars were captured there. But a couple miles south of the weedy wastes, huge crowds of horses are clambering to get into the New Orleans Fair Grounds - more than 3,400 applications were submitt ...

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