The decline of East Coast fair racing

THERE aren’t many of us left,”the 69-year-old Mosner said.Actually, there is no “us.” Theexpiration of theMassachusetts fair circuit inearly September, 2005, leaves Timoniumstanding alone on the East Coast. “It’s allgone,” Bruce Shallcross, general …

In his 47 years of working at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, Max Mosner, the fair’s president and general manager, has seen Thoroughbred racing at Maryland fairs, and at other fairs on the East Coast, slow to a crawl.

By Bill Heller

First Published  (21 July 2010 - Issue Number: 17)

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