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Macon. Tennessee has a mile track at Nashville, the 

 home of the State Fair. Memphis was dismantled 

 in 1929. 



Lexington is the headquarters for mile track rac- 

 ing in Kentucky. At one time there were mile tracks 

 in Indiana at Cambridge City and Richmond. They 

 have passed. Indianapolis is the only one left in the 

 state. Illinois has a splendid mile track at Spring- 

 field. All of the others have disappeared, the group 

 including Washington Park where Alix won the 

 $15,000 free-for-all during the World's Fair, the 

 West Side Course over which Johnston paced in 

 2:06l^ to a high wheel sulky in 1884, Galesburg and 

 Libertyville. 



In Michigan there are mile tracks at Grand 

 Rapids, Lansing, Detroit and Kalamazoo. 



Of the western states Wisconsin has mile tracks 

 at Milwaukee, Augusta, Madison and Janesville. The 

 only one in Minnesota is located at Hamlin between 

 St. Paul and Minnesota. The Rochester and Savage 

 courses have been ploughed. Iowa at one time had 

 mile ovals at Davenport and Dubuque as well as the 

 kite at Independence over which Nancy Hanks de- 

 feated Allerton in 1891. They have faded. Nebraska 

 dropped into line in 1919 with a regulation mile 

 track at Omaha. 



In the eighties the St. Louis Fair and mile track 

 meeting was one of the leading events in October. 

 All of the champions appeared there in the races or 

 in the show ring. It stopped and was followed by St. 

 Joseph and Sedalia where the Missouri State Fair 



