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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.
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".
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
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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 ]
The United Nations Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and older run over a distance of one and three-eighth miles on the turf held annually in July at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. The event currently offers a purse of $600,000.
Horse racing betting is legal in the United States with a unique legal status compared to other forms of gambling. The Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 grants specific exemptions to horse racing from federal anti-gambling laws. American betting on horse racing is sanctioned and regulated by the state the racetrack is located in. [21] [22]