I was doing some research and came across a fact I was totally unaware of. I had always thought that the earliest racing on Long Island was the Vanderbilt Cup beginning around 1908. It turns out that there was an earlier event. On April 14, 1900 there was a race on a one mile oval layed out on the beach in Babylon! Few details exist but there could not have been more than a couple of cars in the event and, in fact, was probably a match race of some sort. Imagine trying that now!