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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...horse racing will never forget Monmouth Park. There, on the petticoat of Jersey's fashionable Long Branch, the Jersey Derby set a vogue for U.S. derbies. There, in 1872, in one of the greatest match races of all time, Longfellow, son of British-bred Leamington, licked Harry Bassett, son of Kentucky-bred Lexington. There, in 1890, James Ben Ali Haggin's immortal Salvator ran a mile in 1:35½-a record that stood for over a quarter of a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Monmouth | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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