Horse Racing – Page 2 – Global Postcard Sales

Showing 41–79 of 79 postcards

Miami, Hialeah Parading to the Post (Florida)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3C-K969, some slight mottling on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 33600048
Price: $2.00
Kentucky Derby (USA)
It is the greatest coincidence that we are entering this card on the date of the Derby–but we won’t charge extra for that. Mailed in 2013 with two stamps and large red postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33600049
Price: $2.00
Racing Scene (H. Aiken)
The painting was in The Bridgeman Art Library in London; the card was mailed from Netherlands in 2013 with stamp and three extra red chop marks. Grade: 4

Code: 33600050
Price: $1.00
Black Caviar (Maximum Card) (Australia)
If a Maximum Card is going to be mailed, this is about as good as the condition can be these days. Mailed in 2013 with (additional) postmark over the pre-printed postage on the reverse. Orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 33600051
Price: $6.00
Horse race (DPR Korea)
We might have given a different caption than the card does (경마 / Horse race) but it’s not far off. Unused card, pre-printed postage of various London 2012 Olympics events and logo. Grade: 1

Code: 33600052
Price: $5.00
Santiago, Club Hipico (Chile)
Unused, vintage real-photo card. Grade: 1

Code: 33600053
Price: $12.00
Villa de Leyva – “Mian square, horse track, buganviles” (Colombia)
Unused Bechara card GOR 191. Grade: 1

Code: 33600054
Price: $3.00
Dade Park Race Track (Henderson, Kentucky, USA)
Mailed in 1952, with stamp and postmark, the card predates the change of this facility’s name to Ellis Park Race Course. Grade: 1

Code: 33600055
Price: $3.00
Thoroughbreds Racing in Kentucky (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 33600056
Price: $1.00
Sporting Barbados
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 33600057
Price: $3.00
Early Day Oklahoma (USA)
Unmailed, with stains and writing in and near the stamp area. The caption describes this as “One of the history’s greatest photographs, the beginning of the race into the Cherokee Strip…” Grade: 4

Code: 33600058
Price: $0.50
Old Shanghai 1940s (set of eight)
We’re showing you the front and back of the glossy cardboard cover for this set of unused cards. It gives you the idea of what’s inside, including trolley, racetrack, and so on. Please note these are contemporary cards, not made in the 1940s. Grade: 1

Code: 33600059
Price: $5.00
Miami, Hialeah Race Track, Club House and Race Track (Florida)
Linen card mailed in 1943, with stamp and full Miami postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 33600060
Price: $2.00
Lexington Trots Night (Kentucky, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 5DK-1479. It’s the “Big Red Mile”. Grade: 1

Code: 33600061
Price: $1.00
Happy Valley, Causeway Bay & the harbour from “the Summit” (Hong Kong)
In the case of this unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card, “the Summit” isn’t “The Peak,” it’s a block of flats. It’s a good view of one of Hong Kong’s two large horse racing tracks. Grade: 1

Code: 33600062
Price: $3.00
Pawtucket, Narragansett Race Track (Rhode Island, USA)
Mailed in 1958, this Curteich-Chicago linen card 6A-H570 has a three-cent stamp, postmark, and some postal ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 33600064
Price: $2.00
Harlingen, Valley Greyhound Park (Texas, USA)
Before you scream at us, yes, we know greyhounds are not horses. But this card is so close! Unused. There can’t be too many greyhound tracks left in the world. Macau says they will close theirs, soon. We’ll believe that when we see it. Grade: 1

Code: 33600065
Price: $2.00
Ruidoso Downs (New Mexico, USA)
Among the many New Mexico postcards of Native American lore, here’s something more contemporary–well, slightly more–of “America’s fastest growing track”. Mailed in 1981, with 12-cent stamp and postmark. Petley card 58133-C, with serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 33600066
Price: $1.00
Citation (USA)
Looking for a Citation postcard? Here you go. Kentucky Derby winner in 1948 who went on to become the eighth winner of the Triple Crown. Unused E.C. Kropp card 12009N – K85. Grade: 1

Code: 33600067
Price: $2.00
Greetings from Rhode Island (USA)
Unused card with a few statistics in the caption. The racing gear is just below the word “Island”. Grade: 1

Code: 33600068
Price: $2.00
Hialeah Race Course, Widener (Miami, Florida)
Looks like this linen horse racing postcard DC-134 of the “Thrilling Finish of the Fifty Thousand Dollar Widener” was mailed in 1949 or 1948, with postmark and stamp. There’s a splotch of age staining on the reverse. The Widener Challenge Cup Handicap was first run in 1936, and after a bumpy ride (so to speak) wound up in 2001 when Hialeah itself was closed. Grade: 3

Code: 33600069
Price: $3.00
Churchill Downs (Kentucky, USA)
Unused card with “Greetings from Kentucky” on the back. Someone has written a 1987 date in small letters in the postage area. Grade: 3

Code: 33600070
Price: $2.00
Oaklawn Race Track, Hot Sprinfgs (Arkansas, USA)
“One of the nation’s finest tracks” … “Where the World Bathes and Plays”. Unused Dexter Press racetrack postcard 89543-C (207). Mild aging. Grade: 1

Code: 33600071
Price: $2.00
Keeneland Race Course, Lexington (Kentucky, USA)
Unused card showing “one of the world’s premier thoroughbred tracks”. Grade: 1

Code: 33600072
Price: $2.00
Delaware Park Race Track, Wilmington (Delaware, USA)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 33600073
Price: $4.00
Citation (Lexington, Kentucky, USA)
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone card 9B-H1487 (KE-25), issued in late 1951 or soon after, and showing one of the most famous racehorses of all time. Grade: 1

Code: 33600074
Price: $6.00
Brad Len
Among American Quarter Horse Racing Champions, Brad Len indeed was one: in 1967, the 3-Year-Old Gelding category; then again in 1968, as Aged Gelding (poor guy). This unused ad card would have served some purpose, but if he was a gelding, it wouldn’t have been stud, would it? We don’t know how that works, but we do know the few other sources selling this card are pricing it a lot higher than we do. Grade: 1

Code: 33600075
Price: $2.00
Santa Anita Park, Arcadia (California, USA)
Unused older card (as you can see from the lack of buildings), bringing back memories of running bets there — sometimes placing them, sometimes not. We’re still here. Grade: 1

Code: 33600076
Price: $2.00
Ciudad Juarez, Race Course (Mexico)
Mailed in Mexico in 1924, this card is OK on the front. The stamp and therefore nearly all the postmark are missing. Grade: 4

Code: 33600077
Price: $6.00
Keeneland Race Course, Lexington (Kentucky, USA)
Unused “local” card. Grade: 1

Code: 33600078
Price: $3.00
Sporting Ireland (Republic of Ireland)
Unused John Hinde card 2/1302, focusing on the Irish Hospitals’ Sweeps and the Irish Sweeps Derby. Grade: 1

Code: 33600079
Price: $3.00
Miami, Greyhound Racing (Florida, USA)
Unused, linen, Curteich-Chicago card 0C-H1221 (DC-173). All right, we know, it’s not horse racing but sometimes we need to stretch the boundaries a little. Grade: 1

Code: 33600080
Price: $6.00
Mount Pleasant, Fairfield County Race Track and Fairgrounds (Ohio, USA)
Unused card with this bird’s-eye view of Lancaster/Mt. Pleasant’s race track, which we guess is mostly (or only?) used for harness racing and not to be confused with many other race tracks also called Lancaster. Anyway, the card makes it clear which one this is. Grade: 1

Code: 33600081
Price: $2.00
Louisville, Churchill Downs (Kentucky, USA)
Home of the Kentucky Derby, and presented on a card mailed in 1978 with two stamps and nearly full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33600082
Price: $3.00
Saratoga Springs, Saratoga Track (New York, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card D6232 (56194-B), serrated edges, showing “one of America’s oldest racing centers”. Grade: 1

Code: 33600083
Price: $2.00
Brooklyn, Sheepshead Bay (New York, USA)
“One of the most beautiful racing tracks in America” according to the caption on this unused card. We would like to let Wikipedia tell its (edited) story: “Sheepshead Bay Race Track opened in 1880 … the track would continue to operate as a horse-racing course until 1910 when horse betting was criminalized in New York state. Afterward it operated as an auto racing track from 1915 to 1919. The decline of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, along with the construction of amusement parks at nearby Coney Island, led to the decline of Sheepshead Bay as a tourist destination. Passenger rail service on the Manhattan Beach Branch ceased in 1924, the line was formally abandoned in 1937, and the former race track site was subdivided for the construction of housing.” So, not beautiful enough. The card is, though. Grade: 1

Code: 33600084
Price: $4.00
Hong Kong Jockey Club – Millennium Celebration
Unused card, 4-7/8″ x 7-1/8″, from 2002, of the event at Happy Valley Racecourse. Grade: 1

Code: 33600085
Price: $4.00
Scarborough Downs (Maine, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 21598-B, whose caption commemorates the track’s 10th anniversary. So of course we went to Wikipedia, whose heavily abridged entry said: “Scarborough Downs Race Track was Maine’s largest race track. It held final races on November 28 or 30, 2020. Built in 1949 and completed in 1950, harness racing was introduced in the 1960s and for a while the track hosted both types of horse racing. However, in September 1972 the track became solely a harness racing track. On October 1, 1980, a pre-dawn fire, ignited as the result of an overloaded electrical box, destroyed a 240-foot barn, killing 11 horses. The racing meet was to move to Cumberland Fairgrounds.” We did not pursue this but you get the idea. Grade: 1

Code: 33600086
Price: $4.00
Arlington Heights, Arlington Park Race Track (Illinois, USA)
It operated between 1927 and 2021, and Wikipedia reports that the Chicago Bears NFL football team bought it for space to develop a new stadium. Unused Curteichcolor card 6ED-481 (AR.1). Grade: 1

Code: 33600087
Price: $3.00

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