Sheepshead Bay Race Track
1915 Astor Cup race at Sheepshead Bay
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| Location |
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, United States |
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| Owned by | Coney Island Jockey Club |
| Date opened | June 19, 1880 |
| Course type | Flat & Steeplechase |
| Notable races |
Beacon Steeplechase Independence Steeplechase |
Flat:
Advance Stakes
Autumn Cup Handicap
Century Handicap
Commonwealth Handicap
Coney Island Derby
Futurity Stakes
Long Island Handicap
Sheepshead Bay Handicap
Spindrift Stakes
Suburban Handicap
Tidal Stakes
Sheepshead Bay Race Track was an American Thoroughbred horse racing facility built on the site of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay, New York.
The racetrack was built by a group of prominent businessmen from the New York City area who formed the Coney Island Jockey Club in 1879. Led by Leonard Jerome and the track's President, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the Club held seasonal race cards at nearby Prospect Park fairgrounds until construction of the new race course was completed in 1880.
Old maps and railroad track diagrams for the Manhattan Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road showing the spur that served both the club and the racetrack indicates the entrance to the club was located on the east side of Ocean Avenue between Avenues X and Y.
In its first year of operations, the new Sheepshead Bay track hosted a 1½ mile match race between two of the top horses racing at the time in the United States. The Dwyer Brothers' Luke Blackburn was ridden by Jim McLaughlin, and Pierre Lorillard's Uncas was ridden by jockey Costello. Luke Blackburn won by twenty lengths.
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