Revisiting Blue Bonnets

Published: November 23, 2014 08:03 pm EST

"It was a life of routine, long hours, modest pay and dirty, exhausting physical work, but for those who worked with horses, it brought its own form of fulfilment, and most had trouble imagining doing anything else. They, too, dispersed in the wake of Hippodrome de Montréal’s closing. Now, it’s as if they were never there."

Paul Delean revisits the site of the now-defunct Hippodrome de Montréal and recounts the days when Blue Bonnets was bustling with harness racing in an article in the Montreal Gazette. Horse racing was last held six years ago at the property, which has been earmarked for a housing development that is currently stalled.

To read the complete Montreal Gazette article and view photos of the racetrack today by Ann MacNeill, click here.

(With files from the Montreal Gazette)

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