Driver John Calabrese won the fifth race with Grafenberg at Freehold Raceway on Saturday. Kevin Armstrong | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
A broken window greeted patrons at Gate 1’s ticket booth so Joan Borke, an 87-year-old widow, entered the 171-year-old Freehold Raceway from the entry on Park Avenue Saturday.
She leaned on a metal cane with her left hand and carried a black handbag decorated with a royal flush in sequins in her right. She eyed the escalators. One was off with caution tape around it. The other worked. She weighed the odds on her best bet to make it inside for the final day of racing at the track she had come to for a half century.
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Kevin Armstrong is an enterprise reporter and photographer for NJ Advance Media. His narratives have been recognized by the National Press Club, the Society for Features Journalism and the National Headliner Awards. He was an executive producer for “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,” a Netflix Original docuseries.
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