Sentence examples for racetrack down from inspiring English sources

If this were Belmont or the Maryland tracks or someplace else, they wouldn't close the racetrack down for one horse.

Cern's engineers are in the process of cooling the superconducting magnets that power the protons around their 17-mile racetrack down to within 3 degrees Fahrenheit of absolute zero.

In fact, when the farm closed decades ago and the Perry children carved up the land among them, Hal built his ranch-style home with a large front porch facing the racetrack down the hill.

We creep into the main entrance and begin a slow descent down a steep hill toward the racetrack, down a gravel road lined with Minis.

Computerized games that simulate Nascar's 23 racetracks down to the very tree on a turn are one way the governing board of this tightly managed sport gives fans an ever-closer sense of what life is like at 180 miles an hour.

It features a fascinating array of down-at-heel hopefuls who try their luck (and their money) at the dilapidated Indian Mound Downs racetrack in West Virginia.

LINCOLN, R.I. — Back in the 1940s, when Hal Perry's father worked on the construction site for the Lincoln Downs racetrack near the family's cattle farm, the Perrys never imagined the place would cause them any trouble.

The early work here includes outdoor urban scenes: a bustling fruit stand in Coney Island, a run-down racetrack in New Jersey, images of popular pastimes like skating, and theatrical subjects, like the Manet-influenced "Seated Actress With Mirror" (circa 1903), a sexy -- for that period of American art -- rendition of an actress entertaining a young male admirer backstage.

So instead of our usual back-and-forth, I thought it might be fun to lay down racetrack odds on each actors' chances of making it to the Final Five.

Finally, even New York racetracks were shut down in 1911 when state legislation outlawed quoting of odds, soliciting bets, and recording bets in a fixed place.

"How do you repair the damage that has been done to my reputation by a second-class punk?" The noted entertainer and founder member of "The Rat Pack" had been invited to appear to answer questions why he had invested $55,000 in the Mafia-controlled Berkshire Downs racetrack.