Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Irish Volunteers

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  Mar 23 2024

  The Irish Volunteers at the Vanderbilt Cup Races

  Author and Mitchel Field historian Paul R. Martin III's wonderful excerpt from his book 'Beneath the Shadows of Wings' about the Irish Volunteers and the Vanderbilt Cup Races

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  Apr 23 2014

  First Brigade of Irish Volunteers Guard the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course

  The Vanderbilt Cup Race Comission was always looking for ways to keep crowds off the course. For the 1908 race, they hired the First Brigade of Irish Volunteers to guard the course.

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  Dec 05 2013

  Chaos at the Finish of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  The primary goal of the newly built Long Island Motor Parkway for the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race was to keep crowds under control and off the course. Unfortunately, chaos once again prevailed at the end of a Vanderbilt Cup Race.