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Horse Track Attractions In South America

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South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It may also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas, which is how it is viewed in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of the Americas. The reference to South America instead of other regions has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics .It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. It includes twelve sovereign states , a part of France , and a non-sovereign ...
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Horse Track Attractions In South America

  • 1. Jockey Club Rio De Janeiro
    Hipódromo da Gávea is a racecourse used for horse racing, located in the Gávea neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Built in 1926, it has 3,000 seats and an overall capacity of 80,000.
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  • 2. Hipodromo de San Isidro San Isidro
    The Hipódromo de San Isidro is a horse racing track located in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is owned by the Jockey Club. It was inaugurated on 8 December 1935 and is one of the largest in the Americas. The Hipódromo is located 22 km from Buenos Aires City. It has an area of 1.48 km². The grass track is 2,783 m long and 45 m wide, allowing for thousand-metre races without turns . There is an inner sand track, inaugurated in 1994, which measures 2,590 m in length by 31 m in width. The covered surface amounts to 32,000 m² and allows for an attendance of about 100,000 . Each December the Hipódromo hosts the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini, the most important horse race in Argentina.
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  • 6. Club Hipico de Santiago Santiago
    Club Hípico de Santiago is a thoroughbred horse race track in Santiago, Chile.
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  • 7. Hipodromo Argentino de Palermo Buenos Aires
    Hipodromo Argentino de Palermo is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the most prominent horse racing venues in Argentina, its installations include a 2,400 meters track suitable for races in all weather. The establishment was founded on May 7, 1876, as the first racecourse in Buenos Aires, and the first National Derby was held there in 1884. On its inauguration, the trains and streetcars of Buenos Aires were not enough to transport the large number of people who wanted to attend the event. However, close to 10,000 people witnessed the first race ever disputed at the Hipódromo, which was won by the horse Resbaloso. A sales floor for racing thoroughbreds, Tattersall de Palermo, was opened in 1898. The original viewing stands were replaced by a Beaux Arts tribune designed by Louis Fa...
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  • 8. Campo Argentino de Polo Buenos Aires
    The Campo Argentino del Polo , popularly known as The Cathedral of Polo, is a multi-purpose stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is currently used mostly for polo, pato and field hockey matches.The stadium, opened in 1928, holds up to 30,000 people and is located in the Palermo neighbourhood, on Del Libertador Avenue, close to Hipódromo Argentino.This is a unique polo field, situated ten minutes away from downtown Buenos Aires, and is considered the most complete, modern and comfortable for spectators in the sport.. The Campo Argentino, is the home to the Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo, the most important polo event in the world, held there since 1928. It is organized by the Asociación Argentina de Polo.
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  • 9. Valparaiso Sporting Valparaiso
    Valparaiso University is a regionally accredited private university located in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States. Commonly known as Valpo, the university is a coed, four-year, Lutheran institution that enrolls about 4,500 students from over 50 countries on a campus of 350 acres .Valpo consists of five undergraduate colleges, a graduate school, and a law school. It is home to the second-largest collegiate chapel in the world, the Chapel of the Resurrection. Originally named Valparaiso Male and Female College, Valparaiso University was founded in 1859 as one of the first coeducation colleges in the United States. Due to reverses brought about by the Civil War, the college was forced to close its doors in 1871. Two years later it was revived by educator Henry Baker Brown and named Northern I...
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  • 11. Hipodromo Chile Santiago
    Hipódromo Chile is a thoroughbred horse race track in the municipality of Independencia, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile. It is one of two race tracks in Greater Santiago.
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  • 12. Hipodromo de Monterrico Lima
    The Hipódromo de Monterrico is a Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened in 1960 in Lima, Peru. Operated by the Jockey Club del Peru, it has a one and one-eight mile dirt racetrack with a one-mile inside track for turf racing. Major races at Hipódromo de Monterrico include the four Group One races that comprise the Peruvian Quadruple Crown: 1.a) es:Polla de Potrillos - September, 1,600 metres 1.b) es:Polla de potrancas - September, 1,600 metres 2.a)Clasico Ricardo Ortiz de Zevallos - October, 2000 metres 2.b) Clasico Enrique Ayulo Pardo - October, 2000 metres 3) Derby Nacional - November, 2400 metres 4) Gran Premio Nacional Augusto B. Leguia - February, 2600 metres
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