PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE 1966 ASCOT SEASON
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F or the second ye ar in a row Sammy
Tanner an d Dan Haaby rank ed as the top
two half-milers In the west. This is
about the only fact that is a repeat from
a ye a r ago.
The '66 Ascot haU mile season was
perbaps the greatest of all from an overall standpoint of balanced competition.
Tanner was again top do g but only won
one third of the main events.
For the first time ever in local halfmile circles, two fi rst year experts broke
Photos by Dennis Greene
into the win column. Ch ris Oraayer and
Gene Romero. the co-" Roo kie s of the
Yea r" in the AMA were the two .
Another lirst came when not one. but
two . out-or-state experts -'1)0 feature
evears, The wins came back to back on
two straight Friday nights when Bart
Markel and Gary Sixon turned back th e
locals.
An adclltional side note is that Nixon
was the onLv rider the entire season to
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