That was three months after Cauthen rode Affirmed to the Triple Crown there hasn’t been a Triple Crown winner since.Ī 2007 victory in the Wadsworth Memorial Handicap by 2003 Kentucky Derby champion Funny Cide is also immortalized on the wall.
Cauthen came to town with Dedicated Rullah and together they won the 1978 New York Breeders’ Futurity.
Shoemaker made Finger Lakes a stop on his 1989 farewell tour. Memoirs from the visits by legendary jockey Bill Shoemaker and former teen riding star Steve Cauthen are prominent. Between 19 it was transformed into a thoroughbred racetrack, and on May 23, 1962, the first race was run. There’s a photo of the Everett Blazey farm that once sat right along Route 96. The mural stretches along the west wall of the clubhouse, some 580-square feet of pictures, programs and newspaper clippings that document 50 years of Finger Lakes Casino and Racetrack history.
