Racebook 101

Track Profiles

Aqueduct

Long before sportswriter Pete Axthelm termed basketball “The City Game,” there was horse racing, long before it was erected at its present location, metropolitan New York was home to tracks named Gravesend and Morris Park and Jerome Park; Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and Jamaica. View More

Del Mar

Horseplayers old enough to recall when horse racing was the...

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Delta Downs

No history of Delta Downs Racetrack in Vinton, Louisiana would be...

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Fair Grounds

If you have any friends at the local tavern who you surmise are casual racing...

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Track Profiles

Golden Gate Fields

The poet expects that you might leave your heart in San Francisco, but horse racing...

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Oaklawn Park

The Oaklawn Park Racing Casino Resort may not resemble great-grandad’s Oaklawn Park Racetrack...

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Gulfstream Park

Once upon a time in South Florida, there was a storied racetrack named Hialeah.

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Keeneland

For all the great racing and what it has meant to the history of Thoroughbred racing...

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Woodbine and Mohawk

For all the great racing and what it has meant to the history of Thoroughbred racing...

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Indiana Grand

The notion that if Indiana wants you and you can’t get there, it simply means that you’re not trying...

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Meadowlands

For a racetrack that has existed only since September 1st, 1976, Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment...

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Monmouth Park

Dating back to 1870, Monmouth Park is the Jersey Shore; the Jersey Shore is Monmouth Park.

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Kentucky Downs

Kentucky Downs is nothing less that Thoroughbred racing’s greatest latter-day...

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Pimlico

The first thing one notices about Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland is...

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Tampa Bay Downs

It’s no secret that Thoroughbred racing has had its share of challenges as the sport...

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Laurel Park

Not even the most casual fan would confuse Laurel Park with racing’s giants—the...

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Churchill Downs

High atop the edifice peering down on the stands, the grounds and sand and loam and grass below...

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Saratoga

Racing fans and horsemen often can disagree but there would be not much disharmony among either group who...

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Santa Anita

In 1904, Lucky Baldwin had an idea to reconstruct the Rancho Santa Anita Mission in the shadow of the...

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Belmont Park

The descriptions of race callers Chic Anderson, Marshall Cassidy, and Tom Durkin, recalling only...

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Presque Isle Downs

In terms of racing history, there’s not much to know about the racetrack in Summit County, Pennsylvania, and...

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Woodbine Harness

The Royals love their racing and when the Toronto Turf Club sent a petition to Queen Victoria...

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