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Read more:Seventh horse dies at Saratoga Race Course in less than a month Saturday was supposed to be a celebration of the $1.25-million Travers Stakes, considered the summer Kentucky Derby.
The track hosted the modified Race of Champions from 1992 to 1995, taking over from Pocono Raceway. The race moved to Oswego Speedway in Oswego, New York from 1996 to 2014, 2016. In 2015 at Chemung Speedrome. The track also hosted the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for four races, from 1995 to 1998.
In 2016, 209 race horses died in California. ... the track put out a news release claiming that it was “the safest track in North America among those with a comparable volume of racing and ...
The NASCAR Cup Series continues the 2024 season with The Great American Getaway 400 at the Pocono Raceway. See live NASCAR race updates here.
This was the first time the track has been repaved since 1995. The new flag stand came from an incident in which a NASCAR Truck Series hauler clipped the old stand and destroyed it in August 2011. January 26, 2012: Founder and chairman of the board for Pocono Raceway, Joseph Mattioli, dies after a long illness. [7]
The 1974 Pocono 500, the 4th running of the event, was held at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, June 30, 1974. Branded as the 1974 Schaefer 500 for sponsorship reasons, the race was won by Johnny Rutherford , who one month earlier won the 1974 Indianapolis 500 .
Horse racing once again in the spotlight as Saratoga Race Course has exceedingly high number of fatalities since meet opened on July 13.
Run on one-mile tracks, [3] it is "the oldest continuing horse-racing series in the United States." [4] The series was started in 1871 by Colonel Billy Edwards, of Cleveland, Ohio, L.J. Powers of Springfield, Massachusetts, E.A. Buck of Buffalo, New York, and later C.W. Hutchinson of Utica, New York. [4]