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IT S now a large, empty field in Dunfermline with no visible signs of the days when it hosted the sport of kings and squeezed in 15,000 seats for the visit of the great American showman, Buffalo Bill.
A century ago, the Urquhart Racecourse, west of McKane Park, would have been full of the sound of thundering hooves and cheers as fans and jockeys urged their horse to greater efforts round the track.
It s a little-known tale but after discovering the town s nags to riches past, Brian Fraser, a high school Maths and computing teacher from Cairneyhill, got the bit between his teeth and determined to find out more. ....

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