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Pages in category "Defunct horse racing venues in New York (state)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Howard Beach is a neighborhood in the southwestern portion of the New York City borough of Queens.It is bordered to the north by the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue in Ozone Park, to the south by Jamaica Bay in Broad Channel, to the east by 102nd–104th Streets in South Ozone Park, and to the west by 75th Street in East New York, Brooklyn.
The track was built for the first Kent and Sussex County Fair, which was held in 1920. [7] Harness racing and other types of races were conducted annually as part of the fair (which changed its name to the Delaware State Fair in 1962). [7] [10] In 1934, the fair became part of the Central Fair Circuit, an organization to coordinate harness ...
The Syracuse Mile was a 1-mile (1.6 km) dirt oval raceway located at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, New York.Originally built for harness racing in 1826, the first auto race was run in 1903, making it the second-oldest auto racing facility in United States history.
Tioga Downs originally was a quarterhorse track known as Tioga Park in 1976, closing down after its third season. James Nuckel, then owner, stated that, "the track had been losing thousands of dollars a day and was still in the red after three years of operation" (New York Times, 1978).
The Hambletonian first took place at the New York State Fair in Syracuse in 1926. The race switched from Syracuse to Lexington, Kentucky for the 1927 and 1929 races, however, because of rainouts. Starting in 1930, Good Time Park in Goshen, New York hosted the race until 1956 with the exception of 1943.
Roosevelt Raceway was a race track located just outside the village of Westbury on Long Island, New York.. Initially created as a venue for the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup auto race, it was converted to a ½-mile harness racing facility (the actual circumference was 100 feet shorter).
The Grand Circuit, also known as the "Big Wheel", [1] is a group of harness racing stakes races run at various race tracks around the United States. [2] Run on one-mile tracks, [ 3 ] it is "the oldest continuing horse-racing series in the United States."