The historical past and legacy of Rockingham Park, which was an essential landmark with a significant financial affect in New Hampshire for greater than a century, will probably be preserved and promoted at Tuscan Village in Salem, N.H., by a newly fashioned group of devoted people and neighborhood leaders, it was introduced June 24.
Tuscan Village, an thrilling state-of-the-art, blended multi-use residential, retail, restaurant, lodge, well being care, workplace, and leisure undertaking, is situated on the 177-acre web site of the previous Rockingham Park.
“Rockingham Park has an essential and illustrious historical past and as a historian of the monitor, I’m excited to be working with the group to protect and promote its legacy and affect to Salem and the state of New Hampshire. Now we have an especially passionate and energized group that is able to get to work.” stated Scott Oldeman, president of the board of administrators of the Rockingham Park Legacy Group, which is 501© (3) non-profit group.
Rockingham Park debuted in June 1906 as the primary horse racing monitor in New England and was the eighth-oldest Thoroughbred monitor in america when it shuttered its doorways in 2016. Throughout its 110 years many different “firsts” occurred. Rockingham Park was additionally the positioning of Grand Circuit harness racing, championship auto and motorbike racing, snowmobile racing, airplane reveals, gala’s, exhibitions, celebrations, and extra. In its later years, the monitor was amongst New Hampshire’s preliminary venues for the state’s burgeoning charitable gaming trade.
The celebrated New Hampshire Sweepstakes was inaugurated 60 years in the past as a Thoroughbred race and was instrumental within the formation of the New Hampshire Lottery that very same 12 months as the primary state-operated lottery in america. That race, which was gained by Horse of the Yr Roman Brother in track-record time, was coated on nationwide TV. In 1967, Horse of the Yr Dr. Fager, one of many sport’s immortals, established a monitor document that was by no means eclipsed. The New Hampshire Sweepstakes was an essential cease on the nationwide racing calendar and attracted future Corridor of Fame horses, jockeys, trainers, and outstanding stables.
Within the coming weeks and months, the Rockingham Park Legacy Group and Tuscan Village will unveil many tributes to the monitor’s storied historical past and can introduce a number of legacy initiatives. Group teams, people, companies, and non-profits together with the Salem Historic Society and the Southern New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, will probably be valued companions on this enterprise.
This press launch has been edited for content material and magnificence by BloodHorse Employees.
