Defunct Horse Racing Venues - Defunct Horse Racing Venues in Canada, Defunct Horse Racing Venues in the United Kingdom (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Defunct horse racing venues in Canada, Defunct horse racing venues in the United Kingdom, Defunct horse racing venues in the United States, Alexandra Palace, Washington Park Race Track, Connaught Park Racetrack, Roosevelt Raceway, Garden State Park Racetrack, Morris Park Racecourse, Sheepshead Bay Race Track, Bay Meadows Racetrack, Great Leighs Racecourse, Kensington Hippodrome, Dufferin Park Racetrack, Jamaica Racetrack, Brighton Beach Race Course, Ak-Sar-Ben, Latonia Race Track, Kentucky Association, Gravesend Race Track, Good Time Park, Tanforan Racetrack, Suffolk Meadows, Chicago Motor Speedway, Bromford Bridge Racecourse, Greenwood Raceway, Manchester Racecourse, Jerome Park Racetrack, The Woodlands, Havre de Grace Racetrack, Parole Hunt Club, Tropical Park Race Track, Wawaset Park, Wilmington, Delaware, Ipswich Racecourse, Narragansett Race Track, Bowie Race Track, Thorncliffe Park Raceway, Raceland, East Sussex Cricket Ground, Cumberland Race Track, Foxboro Raceway, Polo Park Racetrack, Liberty Bell Park Racetrack, Hippodrome Wellington, Cahokia Downs, Phoenix Park Racecourse, Longacres, Hurst Park Racecourse, Lincoln Racecourse, Detroit Race Course, Shenandoah Downs, Ely Racecourse. Excerpt: Set in Alexandra Park, Alexandra Palace was built in an area between Hornsey, Muswell Hill and Wood Green in North London, England, in 1873 as a public centre of recreation, education and entertainment and as North London's counterpart to the Crystal Palace in South London. A planned commercial development of the building into a mixed leisure complex including hotel, replacement ice rink, cinema, bowling alley and exhibition centre encountered opposition from public groups and was blocked in the High Court in October 2007. Alexandra Palace from the west, showing the outside of the Palm Court.As of 2010, the Great Hall an...