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By Betsy Parker
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
Flat tracks. They’re all, basically, part and parcel.
Mile dirt oval surrounding a seven-furlong turf course. Lots of concrete apron abutting a brick-faced grandstand.
The stands “seat” thousands, built as they are for stakes days, but seem sadly empty on a rainy Tuesday. Cham link fencing separates fans from the participants, and a spectator is lucky to get a good snapshot as he tries to photograph the action during his day at the races.
Pinpricks across the infield, the backstretch stabling, concrete block without benefit of shade trees or even shrubbery,
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