Famous horse racing tracks host some of the best known horse racing events in the country. Many of these horse track racing venues have hosted the top races in the United States and many of the champion race horses have run on them throughout the years. Some of the top horse racing venues in the United States are:
o Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky hosts the Breeders Cup Championship, and the yearly Run for the Roses, best known as the Kentucky Derby.
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o The Belmont Stakes is held in Belmont, New York at Belmont Race Park, opened in 1905.
o Pimlico was opened in 1870 in Baltimore, Maryland, and was where the 1938 Preakness Stakes race between champion race horses Seabiscuit and War Admiral was held.
o Saratoga in Saratoga Springs, New York hosts the Travers Stakes, which is the oldest major thoroughbred stakes horseracing in the Us.
o Arlington Park, in Arlington Heights, Illinois face of Chicago is home to the Arlington Million and Secretariat Stakes.
o DelMar, which is north of San Diego, is known as the Saratoga of the West, with many prestigious races, including the 1938 race that one of the most celebrated race horses, Seabiscuit won.
o Oaklawn Park, which was opened in the early 1900's for the Arkansas Derby and champion race horses, Smarty Jones and Curlin have won there.
o The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey opened in 1977 and is a unique horse racing track, because of the night racing events held there.
o Tampa Bay Downs was opened in 1926 in Tampa, Florida, and hosts the Sam F. Davis Stakes which is an official Kentucky Derby qualifier.
o Gulf Stream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida was opened in 1939 and hosts the Donn Handicap, which is someone else Kentucky Derby qualifier and this park has hosted the Breeders Cup any years.
When it comes to celebrated horse tracks, the most familiar is probably Churchill Downs in Kentucky, where the Kentucky Derby is run. Even habitancy that aren't familiar with horse racing have heard of the race and the track.
While there are other celebrated horse racing tracks in other parts of the world, such as Surrey, England where the Epsom Derby has been run for 220 years, no other country has adopted the sport, as much as the United States.
The celebrated racetracks in the United States were more popular in the earlier half of the century, when there were few other forms of entertainment, since the television and appeal pictures were not widespread. Some of the most celebrated racehorses rose to fame during the Depression years, and few have gained the popularity since.
The superior horse tracks made of dirt, with glossy mud when it rained, and the smells of the horses, feed and popcorn in the air are gently being supplanted by online horse track betting and simulcasting.
Famous horse tracks could at last become a dying breed like some of the champion racers who ran on them.
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