It was business as usual Thursday at what the locals still call Derby Lane.
A handful of old men in carrels intermittently chatted about their doctor appointments and cursed at greyhounds in West Virginia because they hadn’t done what they wanted.
The poker room, the first-floor focal point of this now-defunct dog racing track rebranded as Win! Derby, was steady for the middle of the afternoon.
All around, there were noticeable changes to the veneer of a place that first hosted greyhound races in 1925, saw its struggling live racing business end when the sport was made illegal in Florida in 2020, even served as the backdrop for a few scenes in Ocean’s Eleven.
