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Horse and Dog Racing Set - 3 Stock Certificates - Group of Three Scripophily Items

Inv# SR1032   Stock
State(s): Delaware
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Years: 1950's-70's
Color: Green, Brown and Orange

Collection of 1 dog racing and 2 horse racing stocks. Quite a rare topic! Includes the Narragansett Racing Association stock with superb American Indian vignette, Monmouth Park Jockey Club with “Opening Day - 1870” vignette, and Western Racing Inc. stock with running greyhound vignette. VERY POPULAR!!!

Narragansett Park was an American race track for Thoroughbred horse racing in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. On May 18, 1934, Rhode Island voters approved a measure legalizing parimutuel betting by an almost 3 to 1 margin. The following day, the Narragansett Racing Association announced plans for a $1 million race track and steeplechase course on the site of the former What Cheer Airport and filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Rhode Island. The Association chose to name their track after Narragansett Park, a former trotting park in Cranston, Rhode Island. On June 6, 1934, the Narragansett Racing Association was awarded the state's first horse racing permit. Construction was completed in less than two months at a cost of $1.2 million. The track consisted of a one-mile racing oval, a 14,000 seat grandstand, 270 betting and paying booths, a clubhouse, and 22 barns with stalls that could hold more than 1,000 horses. The City of Pawtucket constructed a new four-lane highway leading to the entrance of the track and a double track railway was built near the stands. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narragansett_Park

Monmouth Park Racetrack is an American race track for thoroughbred horse racing in Oceanport, New Jersey, United States. It is owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and is operated under a five-year lease as a partnership with Darby Development, LLC. Monmouth Park's marquee event is the Haskell Invitational, named after Amory L. Haskell. The Haskell was first run in 1968 as a handicap, but was made into an Invitational Handicap in 1981. It is now a 1⅛-mile test for three-year-olds run in late July. Monmouth Park also now showcases the Jersey Derby originally run at Garden State Park until its closure in 2001. The racetrack's season spans from early May to Labor Day in early September. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_Park_Racetrack

Western Racing was originally formed as the Western Enterprises Inc. in Septmember 1955. Then Western Greyhound Racing, Inc. in November 1955. Then Western Racing, Inc. in November 1957. Most of the Greyhound Racing was done in the state of Arizona. For instance, The Black Canyon Dog Track was opened in 1967 by the Funk family. With the newly built I-17, Phoenicians had easy access to the greyhound races in the nearby town of Black Canyon, located 40 miles north of present day Phoenix. Working with Western Racing Inc. from Delaware, the Funk family continued to run the track until it was closed in 1982. A few years later the track would play host to a variety of Swap Meet events, and eventually became abandoned in the late 1980s. The track has been left to rot since. (From https://mentalitch.com/abandoned-black-canyon-greyhound-park/)

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Condition: Excellent

A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.

Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: $45.00