Will #50 Be a Big One?

Photo: Kate Hunter / Eclipse Sportswire

Well, with a little more than a month left to 2014, it looks like I will not be visiting any new tracks for the rest of the year. I was able to add a couple this year, in Finger Lakes and Presque Isle Downs, as part of my four tracks in four days adventure. Below you can see every thoroughbred racetrack in which I have seen live racing. The count currently stands at 49. I have visited a few more than my age, but 50 is a goal I've been wanting to reach now for several years, so you can bet that it will happen in 2015.

 

You'll see that I have some pretty surprising omissions, feel free to tell me which track you think I absolutely need to get to as soon as possible. As you can see, I desperately need to see some races outside of North America. Also, I am very curious as to how many of you out there can put my list to shame. Let me know you think; what should #50 be ... Meydan? Ascot? Longchamp?

  1. Ak-Sar-Ben
  2. Aqueduct
  3. Arlington
  4. Atlantic City
  5. Bay Meadows
  6. Belmont
  7. Beulah Park
  8. Calder
  9. Canterbury Park
  10. Churchill Downs
  11. Colonial Downs
  12. Delaware Park
  13. Del Mar
  14. Ellis Park
  15. Emerald Downs
  16. Fair Grounds
  17. Fairmount Park
  18. Finger Lakes
  19. Fort Erie
  20. Garden State Park
  21. Gulfstream Park
  22. Hawthorne
  23. Hialeah
  24. Hoosier Park
  25. Indiana Downs
  26. Keeneland
  27. Kentucky Downs
  28. Laurel
  29. Meadowlands
  30. Monmouth
  31. Oaklawn Park
  32. Parx
  33. Pimlico
  34. Portland Meadows
  35. Prairie Meadows
  36. Presque Isle Downs
  37. River Downs
  38. Rockingham Park
  39. Santa Anita
  40. Santa Rosa
  41. Saratoga
  42. Sportsman's Park
  43. Suffolk Downs
  44. Tampa Bay Downs
  45. Thistledown
  46. Turf Paradise
  47. Turfway Park
  48. Woodbine
  49. Woodlands 

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