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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.
Note: Harness racing is sometimes conducted at short-term meets at various fairs and similar events. Many notable harness races are held at such venues, such as the Fox Stake at the Indiana State Fair and the Little Brown Jug at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio .
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Construction crews transform the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from a football stadium to host the Bush Light a quarter-mile short track NASCAR exhibition race. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
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 Racetrack in the St. Louis suburb of Collinsville, Illinois (1925) Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida, near Miami (1925) Arlington Park in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois (1927–2021) Santa Anita Park in the San Gabriel Valley community of Arcadia, California, near Los Angeles (1934)