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Madison
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A type of track race, often running six days continuously. Teams of riders would take turns riding and resting. Each team would have a small stick, carried in the back pocket. As one rider would relieve another, the stick would be passed from one to the other in a distinctive maneuver designed to transfer as much momentum as possible from the retiring rider to his relief. This style of racing was most associated with New York's Madison Square Garden, hence the name.
