The Roosevelt Raceway Documentary is in production and the trailer has been released.
There will be a short ten minute version released and shown at the 2017 Roosevelt Raceway reunion (date and place to be announced soon). The full version will be released in the fall of 2017.
The goal is to have the documentary aired on the PBS or the History Channel.
The Roosevelt Raceway story is being produced by Trade Martin Productions with assistance from Billy Haughton, Mike Lizzi and Fred Hudson. Trade, a Grammy winner and multiple Clio Award nominee, also wrote the Roosevelt Raceway song and is currently working on other songs that will be added to the documentary.
Jimmy Jay, known as the DJ of the stars and radio show host out of Boston, will be doing the voiceovers. Jay's primetime radio show has close to one million listeners and he has done voiceovers for many movies and commercials.
The story will tell how modern harness racing came to being and how this once great racetrack came to its tragic end.
Included in the documentary are some great photos, videos, and interviews with some of the people that were there. Special effects, which include photos over videos, have also been added (as seen in the trailer). There are other special effects that will be included in the final video.
For more information, head over to rrtrotting.com/documentary.
(Fred Hudson)