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Article: The field is wide open: the race for the future of Miami-Dade's famous and historic Hialeah horse track is in its final stretch, and right now it is too close to call. (Sports).
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- July 1, 2002
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It has been more than a year since Cheeky Miss won the final race of Hialeah Park' 2001 season, when a bugler played Taps for the last 3,280 spectators, and the famous flamingos who live there took flight for one last aerial parade of pink. Since that May afternoon, not so much as an untraced two-year-old in training has trotted round the 76-year-old "Track That Made Miami Famous." Whether any thoroughbreds will ever race there again remains in doubt, but the answer is likely to come before the end of this year.
"The park is part of the fiber of South Florida," laments John Brunetti Sr., who has owned Hialeab Park since 1977. "I'd hate to speculate on the future ...
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Article: HIALEAH APPROACHES FINISH LINE
The Boston Globe;
March 14, 2000 ;
700+ words
... ... looks forward to working with Hialeah Park in making this new `Hialeah at Gulfstream' race meet ... right direction for all of South Florida racing," said Lonny Powell ... leasing of our facility to Hialeah is currently agreed upon for ...
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