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The Fast Track (Part 1)

Speedway Special Preview Section Thursday, June 15, 2000 Fast Track 3 JOE MUNSON/The Post Jerry Carroll bought farmland in Gallatin County and did as little as possible to disturb the peaceful surroundings - as little as a 66,000-seat, 1.5-mile motor speedway can. Kentucky Speedway is Jerry Carroll's latest, greatest - and riskiest - adventure By Lonnie Wheeler Post staff reporter SPARTA, Ky. - Occupying the passenger seat of Jerry Carroll's red Mercedes convertible is a Daily Racing Form, marked up and obviously pored over. He owns a horse listed in this particular issue - one not too subtly named Speedway Sport, in honor of the al automobile-racing track that Carroll has fashioned out of three family farms Gallatin County but he doesn't need a special reason to pick up his favorite daily. Although he no longer owns Turfway Park, the Racing Form remains one of Carroll's most frequent and trusted companions. He appreciates the candor and relentless truthfulness found in its vast agate columns of past performance. If a horse can't run in the mud, the Racing Form confides it to the betting public; if an animal tuckers out in the stretch, its weakness is coldly quantified in black and white. The Racing Form is all about track records, and Carroll would like to think that he is, too. He has made it his business to be about that, and in turn, Kentucky FRIDAY > NASCAR > NASCAR Craftsman Truck Truck Series * The > Cincinnati Post- p.m. Enquirer Pole Night SATURDAY, > Slim Jim All -Pro Series > IRL > The Kentucky 150, all day 9 p.m. SUNDAY, SATURDAY > RL business has made him. Since attending the last of his seven colleges in 1969, the 56- year-old Aurora, Ind., native has prospered in several commercial incarnations, the common ground between them being that in every case Carroll bought some ground and made it uncommon. His Nashville real estate business somehow morphed into Turfway Park, and now, after 13 years of horse racing, Carroll's imagination has been conspicuously paved over. When the gentlemen start their engines at Kentucky Speedway this weekend, the pedal will be Speedway 2000 event schedule Craftsman > Celebrity Legends race, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 Series 5:30 p.m. ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Kroger 225, 7:30 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Series The Blue Grass Quality JULY 1 The Kentucky 150, 7:30 Meats 200, 3 p.m. Open Test Session p.m. SUNDAY, AUGUST 27 > Fireworks, 9:30 p.m. Indy Racing Northern JULY 2 SATURDAY, JULY 8 Lights Series Open Test Metallica, Summer The Belterra Resort Indy Sanitarium Tour, 4 p.m. 300, 2:30 p.m. pushed to the floor on his biggest The Carrolls moved into the venture yet. It's also the most visi- Dearborn Country Club when ble, the most daring, and the most Jerry was a teen-ager. His father, likely to be forever associated also Jerry, learned to cook in the with his name. "I would be humil- Civilian Conservation Corps and iated to death if this didn't work," made a name for himself as the Carroll says. head chef at Seagram's before he He is rather certain it will, how- was hired to manage the nineever, or else he wouldn't have hole golf course. lured more than $100 million out "When I look back at it now, of various pockets, including his nobody there really had any own. Carroll doesn't intend for money," Carroll says. But it didn't this to be his last project, and he seem that way at the time. The knows the next one won't happen members were Aurora's most unless Kentucky Speedway hits influential citizens, and even as the ball clear out of Gallatin Carroll took their money with his County and bangs a few doors in chipping and putting, he underthe big city 35 miles away. stood he wasn't one of them. "I kind of always thought that's where Jerry got some of his ambition," says his sister, Judy Ullrich, who, while Jerry wandered widely in pursuit of his designs, has stuck around and taught second grade at Aurora Elementary School for 30 years. The country club is also where Carroll learned a little bit about the educated gamble - his father fared well in all-night poker games - and quite a bit about the game of golf. Although he weighed no more than 125 pounds entering his junior year of high school, Carroll was good enough to finagle an invitation to the sports-minded Millersburg Military Academy near Paris, Ky., which he read about in Boys Life magazine. In the interest of a girl, he returned to Aurora as a senior. Golf also got Carroll into college - several times, starting with the University of Mississippi and ending with Toledo, where he was a drama major. "Really," he says, "I was a professional SAE." Carroll did a little stand-up comedy in Toledo, then hauled See CARROLL on 2S
Article from 15 Jun 2000The Cincinnati Post(Cincinnati, OH)
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