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The track also featured Standardbred harness racing, but discontinued it in 1999. [1] View of the spectator stands at Fairmount Park Horse Race Track in Collinsville, Illinois. The track opened in 1925. The racing surface is a one-mile (1.6 km) dirt oval, with straight chutes for six furlong and 1¼ mile races.
The St. Louis Derby run at Fairmount Park Racetrack in Collinsville, Illinois held its inaugural race on August 26, 2006. Open to three-year-old thoroughbred horses of either gender, and run at one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt, this ungraded stakes race offers a purse of $250,000, funded privately by local business men.
Rafael Manuel Hernandez (born 1984 or 1985) is a Puerto Rican thoroughbred racing jockey. During his career, he led in wins at Fairmount Park from 2005 to 2014 except for 2009. At graded stakes races, Hernandez has won 24 Grade III, 17 Grade II and 3 Grade I events.
Leading rider at Fairmount Park (14 times) David Allen Gall (December 17, 1941 – August 1, 2021) was a Canadian-American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey , who ranked fifth in lifetime wins by North American jockeys and who was the first jockey in the United States to ride eight winners on a single racecard.
This is a list of currently active horse racing venues, both Thoroughbred racing and harness racing, sorted by country. In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses". In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses".
Washington Park Race Track (6 P) Pages in category "Horse racing venues in Illinois" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Fairmount Park ...
Fairmount Park may refer to: Fairmount Park, a municipal park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fairmount Park (Riverside, California), a municipal park; Fairmount Park, San Diego, California, a neighborhood; Fairmount Park, Seattle, Washington, a western neighborhood; Fairmount Park Racetrack, a horse racing track in Collinsville, Illinois
Fairmount Park: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 8.1 Mile Road Course limited to cars with 600–750 ci Erwin Bergdoll: Philadelphia Race 2* (200) limited to cars with 451–600 ci Ralph Mulford: Philadelphia Race 3* (200) limited to cars with 301–450 ci Louis Disbrow: Philadelphia Race 4* (200) limited to cars with 231–300 ci Hughie Hughes ...